Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine Volume 6, Number 1, January 1929

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THE UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY

WASHINGTON UNION COAL COMPANY

Volume 6

January, 1929

Number i

Westminster Abbey

In London, England — Tradition Says Began in 605-610

The Burial Place of an Empire’s Great, England’s Hall of Fame

By Jessie McDiarmid

E ASKED permission to consider this ancient

» » abbey which holds first place in the hearts of
Englishmen and stands on the bank of the Thames
in London, just across from the British Parliament
buildings, because we spent several short hours in
it once. But could we really know Westminster
Abbey, we’d know the history of Great Britain, her
poets, priests and potentates; and we’d go back to
Roman history and read its pages; and to the his-
tories of the countries of Europe, related and inter-
woven; and to Africa and her great Livingstone;
and to the Orient and the Islands of the Sea—yes,
and forward to the history of our United States re¬
corded there.

Perhaps it is a good beginning—that we learn
what of particular American direct interest there is
for us. It was there we were first introduced to the
Abbey as an elderly Scottish gentleman, a one-time
member of Parliament who was doing his bit by
guiding parties of on-leave American World War
soldiers through it, drew our attention to the great
Americans that have been immortalized in this Old
World “miracle of architecture,” the Hall of Fame
of an Empire. Nor did our elderly guide stop with
the more direct interests, but carried the historical
points of contact into our tour in a way that showed
him a student of American history and development
as well as that of Britain. Even now as we think
of him, we acknoweldge ourselves still in his debt
and honor a man whom we felt was giving, as surely
as was any war hero, his best to a common cause.

The most recent memorial to a son of America is
that of Walter Hines Page which is a tablet just
outside the chapter house and reads:

To the glory of God and in memory of .

WALTER HINES PAGE
185?—1918

Ambassador of the United States
of America to the Court of St. James
The Friend of England in her sorest need.

Above this memorial to Walter Hines Page is the
James Russell Lowell memorial and it is interesting
to note that Lowell, like Page, is remembered be¬
cause he, too, was an ambassador to the Court of
St. James and not only because he was a great Amer¬
ican poet. In addition to the Lowell tablet there is
a memorial window. The inscription reads:

This tablet and the window above
were placed here in memory of
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
United States Minister at the Court
of St. James from 1880 to 1885,

By his English friends.

Then there is the memorial to Henry-Wadsworth
Longfellow, poet interpreter-of America; and one
to George Peabody, philanthropist, who did much
in England to help the poor in the way universal
thinking agreed at that time they should be helped.

Another memorial that interests many, many
Americans is the one to John and Charles Wesley.
It is a beautiful marble plaque carved in relief,
showing John Wesley preaching to a crowd of peo¬
ple. Above this plaque, also carved in white stone,
are the profiles of these two founders of Methodism.

Below the profiled and the preaching scene are
three inscriptions, notable sayings of John Wesley
and now maxims of the American Methodist
Church.

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Articles of interest to our readers, photographs and sketches suitable for reproduction, are solicited and should be
addressed to Editor, Employes’ Magazine, Union Pacific Coal Company, Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Jessie McDiarmid, Editor.

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“The best of all is, God is with us.”

“I look upon all the world as my parish.”

“God buries His workmen but carries on his
work.”

To thousands of Americans, fellow countrymen
of the great man who said, “And that government
of the people, by the people, for the people shall not
perish from the earth,” one of the most sacred
shrines in the abbey is-the chapter house where the
first assembly of the common people, the first repre-
sentative parliament, convened in 126?.

And few of our generation would fail to stop be¬
side the memorial to the British Unknown Soldier
who was buried in the abbey just as an American
Unknown Soldier was buried at Washington. Gen¬
eral John J. Pershing represented this country at the
ceremony and laid on the grave a Congressional
Medal from the United States, which now hangs on
a stone pillar as a part of the memorial. The last
sentence of the inscription which appears in carved
letters on the black marble slab quarried from one
of the Belgian battlefields and covering the grave is:

“They buried him among the Kings because he
hath done good toward God and toward his
home.”

Poet’s Corner.

And on the four sides of the memorial are these
verses from the Bible:

“In Christ shall all be made alive.”
“Unknown and yet well known.* 4
“Dying and behold we live.”

“The Lord knoweth them that are His.”

And now what of the cathedral itself, dare we try
to encompass its twelve hundred years of religious
and historical significance, its stones replaced con¬
stantly one by one, in the short space we may use
for it? Not in many volumes and many months of
study. Obviously, we may only take.a brief look
at it, recall its history which rises in tradition and
then pick our way carefully as we walk in its tran¬
septs and nave, its chapels and archways, full of
statues, tablets and memorials to England’s great.
It has the aspect to New World visitors of being
cluttered up and demanding constant appeals to
memory to replace forgotten portions of history as
we are arrested by the significant and startling at,
every step. Nor are our hearts left untouched as
we find memorials to friends of history and story
and hero-worshipping school days. We well re¬
member wandering away from our guide and com¬
ing on to the reclining figures of Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, life sit,e and in white marble,
and feeling that here were friends of our own among
the ancients. Then, having gone to look at the
Coronation Chain, we found the Scottish Stone of
Scone and remembered the old prophecy:

“If fates go right, where’er this stone is found
The Scots shall monarchs of that realm be
crowned.”

This stone, Scottish tradition declares to be the
identical stone upon which Jacob pillowed his head
at Bethel. We are not told how it got to Scotland
—unless the lost tribes took it with them—but it is
true that upon it the kings of Scotland were crowned
for many centuries, and, so that Scottish royal tradi¬
tion could be added to that of England, it was used
when James I of Scotland was crowned first King
of Great Britain. Now it is attached to the corona¬
tion chain by clamps of iron—the crown jewels of
Scotland, however, remain in Edinburg Castle. But
that’s another story.

According to tradition, the first church on the
site of Westminster Abbey was built between the
years 605 and 610 by Sebert, King of the East Sax¬
ons, and was consecrated by St. Peter himself, who
suddenly appeared for the purpose. Being built on
the west side of the City of London, it' was called
the “West Minster” to distinguish it from the
church of St. Paul. Then in the time of St. Dunstan
(960) we find a Benedictine Monastery established.
Edward the Confessor is, however, usually regarded
as the founder of the church. He was crowned in
the abbey as has been every English monarch since,
with the exception of Edward V who died before
his coronation day.

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The abbey has been the growth of centuries. In
the main, the present building is the work of Henry
III, who pulled down all the eastern part of the Con'
fessor’s church. The western portions were added
at various periods between 1340 and 1483. The
north and west cloisters, and the Jerusalem Cham-
ber were built by Abbot Litlington in the reign of
Edward III. The magnificent chapel which bears
his name was added by Henry VII between 1*502
and 1512. The tow,ers at the western end were
added in 1738-9, it''is believed from designs by
Hawksmoor, one of Wren’s pupils. The central
tower, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, is still
wanting, and ever since the seventeenth century
masons have been at work replacing stone by stone
the decayed portions of the exterior—with the result
that externally, “the church is a copy, not by any
means faithful, of the original.”

And still, even architecturally it has a magnifi¬
cence and splendor of pure English Gothic (early)
that satisfies any demand for absoluteness of gran¬
deur. It is built in the form of a Latin cross with,
however, the choir extending beyond the transepts
almost to the middle of the nave.

It is usually entered by the door in the North
Transept, close to St. Margaret’s Church and here
in the North Transept is Statemen’s Isle. Here are
monuments to W. E. Gladstone and Disraeli and we
may stop a moment to remember, and then pass on
to the Bunyan Memorial Window representing
scenes from the Pilgrim’s Progress and of interest
to Christendom.

Among the memorials to scientists we notice that
of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Charles Darwin; and
presently a row of memorial windows commemorat¬
ing famous engineers.

In the Poets’ Corner, famous throughout the
English speaking world, are uncounted things of
interest. Comparatively few of the writers and
bards are actually buried in the abbey but there are
memorials and busts and tablets and windows to
authors of English poetry from Chaucer to Tenny¬
son and Ruskin. The, tomb of Chaucer (1400)
from which the corner “derives the origin of its
peculiar glory” stands beneath a stained glass win¬
dow, representing scenes from the immortal “Pil¬
grimage.” He was buried here not as a poet, but
because he happened to be Clerk of the Works at
Westminster. And we may pay tribute to busts of
Browning and Tennyson and Shakespeare; and
Scottish Burns and American Longfellow. We may
see the Rose Window and the Royal Tombs, so
many of them.

An unsual romantic interest is attached to the
Jerusalem Chamber, taking its name from the tapes¬
tries with which it is decorated. Here Henry IV
died in 1413 on the eve of starting for the Holy
Land thus fulfilling the prophecy that he would
die in Jerusalem (Shakespeare’s “Henry IV”).

Nor can we stop without a mention of Westmin¬
ster Boys’ School whose students have their morning
prayers in one of the abbey chapels and, our boy

readers will be interested to know, are the originat¬
ors of “Pancake Tuesday,” the custom of tossing the
pancake taking place annually on Shrove Tuesday,
the boy who succeeds in getting the largest piece
being rewarded with a guinea by the Dean.

We have not followed a usual or consecutive
route but have touched bits about Westminster Ab¬
bey of England—and another month we will trans¬
fer our attention to a great cathedral of another
country.

Slmt of thf Mine

Why Did “Crusader” Thompson
Come to Southern Wyoming?

F OR the past several weeks Mr. Freeman
Thompson has honored Rock Springs and the ■,
southern Wyoming coal field with his gifted pres-,
ence; coming as one anxious to save the mine
workers from their Union, the road to salvation
suggested that of ceasing, to pay dues into the U.
M. W. of A., signing up with Mr. Thompson
instead. We would hesitate to impugn Mr. Thomp¬
son’s financial integrity, even though' Acting Secre¬
tary George Mercer of the Illinois mine workers
organisation states that he still owes Local Union
No. 731, at Springfield, Illinois, $323.77, which he
promised to restore to the Local back in 1918.
Mr. Thompson is entitled to plead that the statute
of limitation runs against the collection of a debt
ten years old, and it was rather unkind of Mr. Fon-
tecchio to bring up the question of an alleged de¬
falcation when Mr. Thompson was busy working
for the betterment of the miners in general.

Granting, therefore, that this gentleman is pos¬
sessed of all the knightly qualities of a real “Cru¬
sader,” we are still given to wonder why he selected
the southern Wyoming coal field as the one best
place to help humanity. Ordinarily, when a re¬
former starts out to reform something he picks
out the worst spot he can find, cleaning things up
as he goes, always striving to bring the bad condi¬
tions up to the standard of those above.

It is a fact that there are coal fields that pay a
wage only approximately fifty or sixty per cent
of that paid in Wyoming, where the opportunities
for reasonable working time are much poorer, and
where the living conditions are infinitely worse
than they are in the west. As we do not enjoy
“Crusader” Thompson’s confidence we are at a
loss to understand why this generous reformer in¬
sists on neglecting the $3.50 to $4.50 per day
wage districts to brave a Wyoming winter, where
the net average daily wage received by all classes
of mine workers ranged in October, from $7.12 to
$13.40 per day of 8 hours, and where net monthly
earnings ranged from $183.06 to $341.03 for the

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month. Certainly as erudite a student of labor
economics as Mr. Thompson has not failed to
acquaint himself with the recent senatorial investi¬
gation of the mining industry, an investigation cov¬
ering conditions in West Virginia, Pennsylvania
and Ohio and containing many bitter stories of
wrongs pleading for righting.

The only reasonable explanation that can be of¬
fered for Mr. Thompson leaving Local Union No.
731, in the Illinois/coal field, is that he just nat¬
urally exhausted the coal digging job and has taken
to “gold digging,” and of course any well in¬
formed “gold digger,” whether of the male or
female persuasion, naturally drifts to where the dig¬
ging should at least be good. That is why “Cru¬
sader” Thompson came to Wyoming; the end result
of his “digging” activities that of costing certain
individuals who do not know when they are well
off in their jobs. Thompson will pass out of the Wy¬
oming coal field picture just as thousands of other
reformers have passed out; they never stay long
in one place but are ever on the hunt for the kind
of individual of which Barnum once said, “there is
one bom every minute.”

The I. W. W. Handbook

T HE “Wobblies” as they like to call themselves, advertise
for sale a handbook for “The coal miners of the world.”
This pretentious pamphlet sells for a quarter and it tells the
whole story of coal. From the fact that the statistical in¬
formation dates back to 1920, we infer that it is not a
“just up to date” booklet but it will do.

The first tiling we find in this pamphlet is a cut, cap¬
tioned “The Industrial Siamese Twins.” In the back¬
ground a man, presumably a mine worker, sits on a building
labeled “mine”; in front of him are the words “Nary a
lump?” In the foreground a trainman, presumably a brake-
man is reading a newspaper, the headlines reading “Indus¬
trial Solidarity. Strike, Miners and Railroad Men.” In

front of this gentleman is blazoned the reply “-No! and

nary a car either!!”

Good stuph! That was tried out in 1922 between the
coal miners in certain sections and the railway shop crafts,
and still the world wagged on, the only serious and lasting
result being the almost complete extinction of the old Rail¬
way Shop Unions and a badly depleted Mine Workers
Union. In the light of what happened in 1922 the editor
should at least withdraw the illustration from his book.

We will pass the preface, turning to the preamble. Under
the heading “What Say the Wobblies” we reproduce the
first and second paragraphs of this document. Along side
of the above we reproduce a statement headed “A Non-
Wobblies’ Opinion.” We can each take our choice of doc¬
trine. As the principles set forth are as far apart as the
poles they need not be confounded.

What Say the Wobblies

The working class and
the employment class have
nothing in common. There
can be no peace so lone-
; hunger and want

_ = millions of

orking people and the
lake up the em-

who n

go on until the workers of
the world organize as a
class, take possession of
the earth and the ma¬
chinery of production, and
abolish the wage system.

A Non-Wobblies’ Opinion

All the wild ideas of un¬
balanced agitators the
world over in their ignor¬
ant and pitiable quest for
happiness through revolu¬
tion, confiscation of prop¬
erty, and crime, cannot

to happiness through
property or government is
the broad and open high¬
way of service. And serv¬
ice always means indus¬
try, thrift, respect for au¬
thority and recognition of
the rights of others.

Following the preamble comes much about the origin of
coal, all lifted from some high school treatise on coal geology.
On page 29 we find an advertisement for a book sold by
the I. W. W.’s which reads:

“The staggering story of how the wealth of ‘our best
families’ came into existence by a series of crimes of
this kind is told in great detail, with innumerable refer¬
ence to public documents, in a work entitled ‘History
of the Great American Fortunes’ by Gustavus Myers,
covering about 1,100 pages in 3 volumes. This great
work, containing the basic knowledge of American eco¬
nomic history, without which the present cannot be
properly understood, is sold by the I. W. W. Anyone
who wishes to know how ‘the boss’ got his original
accumulation and how this accumulation grew into
hundreds of millions and into billions of dollars, had
better write for these volumes.”

Thereafter follows a long diatribe against the coal indus¬
try and the railroads, which includes the following refer¬
ence to southern Wyoming:

“The coal-miners of Wyoming are largely controlled
by the Union Pacific Railway, again leading us to Wall
Street. Some Finnish coal-miners in Wyoming some
years ago secured the Sampo mine, near Hanna, Wyo.,
and started a co-operative coal mine. But they, soon .,
had to shut down, and the mine is still idle. The Union ’
Pacific Railway refused to furnish cars for hauling the •
coal. This is a good example of what has happened to
the poor’ operator. He does, hardly exist any longer.

He is a myth, a sawdust-filled dummy with which to
catch the sympathy of ‘the public’.”

Page after page of government figures now eight years
old, relating to production, etc., are reproduced, then we
get some new dope on mine explosions and then comes the
piece de resistance which is French for “a solid joint”:

“Organize a branch of the Coal-Mine Workers’ In¬
dustrial Union No- 200 whenever and wherever pos¬
sible. It does not matter if the branch is small at first.

It will grow bigger soon. If the pressure from the oper¬
ators’ side is too great to organize openly, do it ‘on the
quiet.’ If you cannot do that, get a delegate’s creden¬
tial yourself, to transact business for the I. W. W.,
and locate some more capable and trustworthy fellow
workers to help you by also taking out such credentials.
The more delegates on the job, the quicker will be the

“In the meantime do what you can as an ‘outlaw’
inside the old union. We do not want you to lose your
bread, as the leaders intended you should when they
adopted the ‘outlaw’ amendment. The bread is not
very big at this time, anyhow, and what little there is,
is bitter, but if you lose your job at the mine, your use¬
fulness as a delegate and organizer is at an end. Pro¬
ceed prudently and stay by it. You have two enemies
from the start, the operators and the reactionary union
leaders. You have got to make friends right under
their noses. Do not spoil your chances by brass band
tactics. But you are the best judge yourself what tac¬
tics are best in your locality.

“The idea is to try to get the miners to accept our
principles and discard their old leadership.”

We repeat what has been said so often before, “the tragedy
lies in the hardships that the unthinking followers of these
errant ‘gold diggers’ bring down on themselves and their
families by the loss of their employment.”

The Still Small Voice

T HAT the human conscience may lie fallow for
years and thereafter be roused into action was
well brought out in a letter that recently came to the
Union Pacific Coal Company’s general offices and

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written by an ex-employe who left the company’s
service several years ago. With the letter came a
bank check, “to pay for material taken from the
coal company’s premises.”

The letter addressed to the General Manager
then in charge of the property, after explaining the
circumstances under which the material was taken,
goes on to say:

“I am sorry to have done anything like that
and so far as I now- know, this was the only
dishonest thing I did while employed by you.

A number of years ago I had the good fortune
to become just a plain Christian; this accounts
for my apparent honesty.”

Though we are living in a doubting age it is com-
forting to know that the influence and teaching of
the humble Nazarene yet penetrates the hearts and
souls of humankind, and this man, whose offense
was infinitely more trivial than many committed
almost daily by some of us, displayed a fine measure
of courage in making the frank confession contained
in his letter.

Relative Rate of Growth of Coal,
Oil and Water Power

T HE U. S. Bureau of Mines recently completed a
special report on the rate of. growth of the three
principal sources of power, coal, oil and gas, and
water, that is very informative. In order to effect a
proper comparison the energy equivalent in British
thermal units for each of the three elements were
calculated. The figures submitted by the Bureau
cover the period 1819 to 1926 inclusive, 108 years,
the industrial life period of the nation.

In 1819 coal represented the only power making
fuel used, the amount of water power used was very
small, grist mills the principal users. We need but
take the figures for 1918, the last year of the Great
War, as a basis of comparison with 1927, to find
that coal consumption as a power maker has shrunk,
while oil and water power has grown rapidly.

1918 1927

Consumption of coal in trih
lions of B.t.u.’s bituminous

and anthracite . 17,868 15,744

Consumption of oil and gas

in trillions of B.t.u.’s... 3,137 7,311

Consumption of water power
in equivalent trillions of
B. t. u.’s. 837 1,687

Total energy produced in trih

lions of B. t. u.’s. 21,842 24,742

The total per cent of energy created increased
13 per cent between 1918 and 1927. Coal, how¬
ever, fell off 12 per cent while gas and oil increased
133 per cent, and water power increased 102 per
cent.

The percentage of energy created by the fuels,
coal with oil and gas combined, in 1927, as com¬
pared with 1918, are illuminating. These figures
show that while King Coal still keeps in the lead
as a creator of energy, he has left his end of the
double-tree slip back to oil and gas since 1918.

1918 1927

Per cent of energy created by coal 85.1 68.3

Per cent of energy created by oil

and gas . . 14.9 31.7

Total .100.00 fOO.O

The data for water power for the years 1918 and
1927 are not included in the above, and while water
power is yet but a negligible source of energy in the
United States, the per cent of such to fuel created
energy grew from 4.0 per cent in 1918 to 7.3 per
cent in 1927. Much of the power created by oil
is absorbed by the automobile, the truck and other
users of gas engines, and oil fuel for business and
residence use has grown materially in recent years.

No more startling evidence of the change in the’
measure of coal used in certain industries can be
found than that which has taken place in the use of
fuel at the mines. In 1918 the mine fuel used to¬
taled 12,521,446 tons, in 1926 the consumption had
dropped to 5,727,852 tons, and advance figures for
1927 indicate a total mine fuel consumption of but
4,930,394 tons.

CONTENTS

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Page

Westminster Abbey. 3

Run of the Mine. 5

Make It Safe. 8

Engineering Department. 10

Book Review—“Transition”. 13

The Poet Burns and the Burns Country 14

The Holiday Season With Us. 18

Ye Old Timers. 20

Pictures in Our Rock. 23

Laughs. 24

Of Interest to Women. 25

Our Young Women. 26

Our Little Folks. 28

News About All of Us. 29

The Office Duster. 35

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November Accident GrapK

It has been a decidedly bad month, the worst probably in
the last four years. While the total number of accidents
is less than for October and the average number of man¬
shifts slightly more, in the above total of 26 accidents are
three fatalities, one each at Winton, Rock Springs and Su-

The total man-shifts of labor performed in all six districts
during November was approximately 43,000. There were
twenty-six accidents reported, twenty-three non-fatal and
three fatalities, making the total for all districts 1,648 man¬
shifts per accident.

Reliance heads the list for the month with no reportable
accidents while Superior is again at the foot with eleven
accidents and an average of only 791 man-shifts for each
accident, less than one-half the average for the other five
districts.

The majority of these accidents are preventable. That
preventable accidents can be decreased has been proven. In
coal mines they result largely from injuries from machines,
conveyors and other mechanical devices; accidents due to
cars, motors, etc., and from falls of roof and coal. In the
main they occur from recklessness of the individual worker
directly at the working face. These accidents did not just
“happen.” They were caused by some kind of failure—
machine, material or man failure.

Can’t we do something to stop these “failures”?

General Rules and Precautions to
be Observed in the Use and
Handling of Explosives

Don’t—

—use more than three sticks of permissible explosive in
any one hole.

—force a cartridge into a hole.

■—slit the cartridge and tamp tight as this is detrimental
to the cushioning effect.

—ever tamp with an iron bar. Use wood bars only.

-—hurry in seeking the explanation of a missed shot.

—drill, bore or pick out a charge which has failed to
explode, but drill and charge another borehole at a safe
distance from the missed one.

— curry blasting caps or electric detonators in your pocket.

—try to withdraw the wires from an electric blasting cap.

—keep electric blasting caps, or blasting machines in a
damp place.

—leave the leading wires connected to the blasting ma¬
chine. Disconnect them immediately if it becomes

necessary to return to the shot.

—RETURN TO ANY MISSED SHOT UNDER A
20-MINUTE INTERVAL.

—loop or tie the wire connections. Scrape the ends of
the wires clean and bright and twist them tightly to-

—fail to twist the bared ends of electric detonator leg
wires together at the outside of the mine, and keep
them so until just before firing, then untwist them and
connect them to the firing lines.

—drag the leading wires around. Always coil them up
and carry them.

—insert electric blasting cap in cartridge carelessly.
Have closed end of the detonator pointing toward the
bulk of the cartridge.

—store or transport electric blasting caps with high ex-

—worry along with old, broken leading wire or connect-’
ing wire.

—operate blasting machines half-heartedly. They are
built to operate with full force. They must be kept
clean and dry.

-—shoot from the trolley wire.

The Toll of a Hazardous
Occupation

The November hoodoo seems to have carried over for
another year, for during this month three fatalities occurred
in the Union Pacific mines. Unlike last year when one acci¬
dent took two lives, all three deaths this year were due to
separate accidents and in different mines.

While engaged in pulling panel stumps in “E” Mine,
Superior, Mr. Albert Marietti was instantly killed by a fall
of coal on November 2nd. In a place that had been in¬
spected at various times during the day by the mine officials
and which to all outward appearances was perfectly safe
and solid, a movement of overlying strata caused a “bump”
and the unfortunate man was killed.

Mr. Edward Cook, a man of many years' experience, was
killed in No. 8 Mine, Rock Springs, November 26th, while
engaged in pulling props from an abandoned scraper room.
There was nothing connected with Mr. Cook’s sad death
that could in any way be classified as carelessness on the
part of either the company or the unfortunate victim'.

Mr. Joseph Liddel, a machine runner in No. 7 Mine, Win-
ton, was injured November 27th, when a large piece of face
coal rolled from the face and caused injuries that resulted
-in his death two weeks later. The face from which this fall
was to all appearance solid and with no overhanging coal,
and soundings a few minutes previously idisclosed no losoe-
ness, but, without warning, it fell.

In each and every case noted above the man was an old
and experienced employe and with enviable reputations for
ability and carefulness, but nevertheless they met their
deaths in accidents that to all intents are unavoidable and
from circumstances over which neither they nor their em¬
ployers had any control.

Such cases as these unhappily bring home more forcibly
the fact that coal mining is a tremendously hazardous occu¬
pation. With all the care and precaution that can be used,
many of the accidents cannot and never will be entirely
eliminated but the number of accidents can.be reduced.

It is the preventable accident, the one due to carelessness
or lack of foresight that we must try to prevent. Careless
thinking, the tombstone of most accidents, is a deep-seated
evil and it can only be rooted out by constant vigilance.

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Another Appreciation of
First Aid

Kemmerer, Wyoming

Editor, Employes’ Magazine,

Union Pacific Coal Co.,

Rock Springs, Wyo.

Dear Editor:—

Will you please allow space in your magazine for a word
of praise for two men who belong to the Cumberland First
Aid team?

On Sunday, August 12th, there was a picnic being held
at the County Bridge and while the older members present
were enjoying themselves at racing and other sports, there
were some children swimming in the river nearby.

A boy, about 12 years of age, who was wading, fell into
a deep hole and had gone down twice when these two men,
who were passing in their car, plunged into the river fully
dressed and brought the boy to safety.

They removed the water from his lungs and gave artificial
respiration, and in about twenty minutes had the boy on
his way home with his parents.

Without changing their clothes, they got into their car
and returned to Cumberland. I did not learn their names,
but I heard them addressed as “Charlie” and “Jack.” It is
possible that you may learn the names of these men and
give them the word of praise that they richly deserve.

Had this boy been left to the writer’s care he would have
surely died as I am entirely ignorant of First Aid training
and methods, but these two men undoubtedly did good work.

FROM A CITIZEN OF KEMMERER.

November Accidents

Miner—FATAL—Working in pillar. Roof was apparently
good and soundings at various times during shift
showed it to be solid. Large piece of roof rock was
discharged by “bump” killing miner instantly. It was
an unavoidable accident.

Prop-puller—FATAL—Was removing props in an aban¬
doned mechanical scraper room. He was in the act
of under-mining a prop when the roof above him gave
way, pinning him and killing him instantly. This was
' another unavoidable accident.

Miner—Was lifting a piece of coal in the room chute. A
piece of coal came down the chute, striking his hand
and bruising thumb.

Miner—Was drawing room pillar. A small piece of cap
rock fell, causing scalp laceration and bruised back.
Loader—Was dropping a loaded car from face of room to
entry. Car derailed and he was struck on chest, receiv¬
ing contusibtt,

Tippleman—Was coupling cars on tipple and was squeezed
between two empty cars.

Loader—Was shovelling coal at face. A piece of coal
rolled from face, striking him and causing a fracture
of left leg.

Timberman—While engaged at duties of timberman, piece
of top rock fell, severely bruising fingers of right hand.
Inside Laborer—Using pick at coal face. Small piece of
coal flew from pick point, striking him in eye and
causing corneal ulcer.

Miner—Hernia, presumably caused from lifting upon car.
Conveyor Man—Lagging between timbers broke, permit¬
ting coal to fall and causing contusions of arm.
Rope-runner—Was pulling a derailed car on the track.
Car rode over the rail and his foot was caught against
the water pipe.

Conveyor Man—Was digging bottom coal near end of
“duckbill.” Piece of top coal fell, knocking him into
ratchet drive and causing contusions of back.

Miner—Was pulling down loose top coal. It fell unexpect¬
edly and he was unable to get into clear, receiving con¬
tusions iof back and fractured rib.

Machine Helper—Was helping pull cutting machine on
pan. His hand was caught between jack-pipe and
chain, lacerating second and third fingers of left hand.
Tippleman—While trying to pull bale of hay from railroad
car to truck, fell from truck and received fractured rib.
Miner—Was coupling two loaded cars. Cars came together
and he was squeezed through the shoulders.

Stone Mason—With another employe, was carrying heavy
timber. He stepped on rail and slipped, timber falling
on foot, causing severe contusions.

New Cascade Tunnel Built in
Three Years

Eight-Mile Bore in Washington Is Longest in Country—
To Be Finished by January 12.

Seattle, Wash., Dec. 7.—All world records for speed in
railroad tunnel construction are being broken by the com¬
pletion in three years of America’s longest railway tunnel,
the new Cascade mountain bore of the Great Northern rail¬
way iri Washington.

The eight-mile tunnel WjiU be finished by January 12,
shattering by two vears the best previous time for a project
of similar magnitude. The Moffat Tunnel in Colorado,
nearly two miles shorter, required four and a half years
for completion.

Four European tunnels, three of which are only slightly
longer than the Cascade, were constructed in from seven
to fourteen years. Adding to the accomplishment in Wash¬
ington is the fact that the new tunnel has been lined with
concrete. Neither the Moffat nor the four European tun¬
nels were finished with concrete walls.

Ingenious devices were used to drive through the passage¬
way in the time allotted the contractors by the railway.
Work was started from both ends and a 622-foot shaft was
sunk to intercept the path of the tunnel two and a half
miles from the east entrance. From this shaft drilling was
started toward both ends, and these four primary points
of attack were augmented further by a temporary parallel
tunnel run from the shaft to the west portal, five and a half
miles away.

From the pioneer bore, cross-cuts were constructed into
the large tunnel to gain access to the main route at several
places and keep work going at a number of points.

The project cost approximately $14,000,000 and was a
part of a $2J,000,000 improvement program of the Great
Northern in the Cascades. It shortens the line eight miles,
lowers the summit elevation 702 feet and eliminates six
miles of snow sheds.

Coincident with the excavation the railroad relocated
twenty miles of track, and the entire seventy-five miles
through the Cascades will be changed from steam to electric
operation. The entire project will enable the road to
shorten the running time of passenger trains through the
mountains by one hour. Freight schedules will be reduced
three hours .—?{ew Tor\ Times.

Charity

“For all you can hold, in your cold dead hand
Is what you have given away.

He gave with a z,est and he gave his best;

Give him the best to come.”

Thus sang Joaquin Miller and thus have sung poets of
many ages. Thus taught Confucius, Christ, Socrates; every
philosopher whose words and philosophy have lived beyond
their own day. Thus has taught every organization whose
tenure of existence has extended beyond the generation in
which it was born. And thus have lived, if not all the indi¬
viduals whose memory has lived, most certainly the indi¬
vidual whose memory is kept the greenest. Worth thinking
about isn’t it on this New Year’s Day.

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Employes’ Magazine

January , 1929

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Geology of Coal

By C. E. Swann

[The “Geology of Goal,” prepared by Chief Engineer
Swann from extracts from publications by the McGraw-Hill
Publishing Company in two parts, treats of the vegetable
origin of coal and the various theories put forth to explain
the manner in which plants were accumulated: Climate of
the Carboniferous Age: Formation of Anthracite coals:
Cannel coal: Erosian of the coal measures: Correlation of
coal seams, etc. Part II will appear in our February issue.]
PART I.

HE science of geology offers few problems more attrac¬
tive than a study of the formation of our vast coal de¬
posits. The methods which Nature used in storing away m
the innermost folds of the earth such inconceivable amounts
of energy as represented by our fuel beds are not entirely
clear, although patient research on the part of geologists,
botanists, chemists and experts on fossil life have revealed
some of the processes by which these wonderful accumula¬
tions of mineral wealth have been brought about. ■

That there is a lack of unanimity of opinion on some
phases is not surprising. Investigators are generally agreed
on the fundamental conceptions, such as, for instance, coal
being the remains of vegetation, that the deposition of this
vegetation took place in remote ages and that the original
deposits have since been subjected to the modifying influ¬
ences of time, heat and pressure. On other phases there are
decided variances of opinion, thus, the manner in which
the masses of vegetation accumulated: whether it be vege¬
tation which grew in situ (grown where coal deposits occur)
or whether it consisted of drifted material: whether the
vegetation of the carboniferous period was massive or
whether small: whether all coal beds, be they lignite or
anthracite, began as peat deposits: how devolatization of
anthracite seams was brought about: the length of time
required for the formation of coal beds, etc. These details
have all produced opinions more or less in conflict.

It is not the purpose of this article to make an exhaustive
investigation of the various theories advanced to account
for the phenomena attending the formation of coal. Refer¬
ence, therefore, will be made only to those views which
find support among present-day investigators.

Coal Formation Periods

Most of the important coal beds in the United States
were deposited during the great carboniferous age. During
this period an amazing growth of luxurious vegetations,
consisting of ferns, reeds, horse tails, club mosses and ever¬
greens, all bearing a family likeness to certain kinds of
plants that flourish today, was everywhere to be seen.' Not
only was vegetation abundant, but according to some writers,
it grew to great size. Ferns ranged in size from the smallest
species up to the great tree-ferns. The plant known to
geologists as calamites, which somewhat resembles the mod¬
ern horsetails, grew to the size of trees, almost a hundred
feet in height. The modern cydad was- simulated by plants
that were intermediate in appearance between tree ferns and
palms. Somewhat like the ground pine, but much larger in
size, was the lepidodendron which grew in great profusion.
Club mosses raised their slender height more than fifty feet
above the soil, in fact all vegetation grew to immoderate
heights. The belief in inordinately sized vegetation is not
shared by all, those who dissent relying upon the fossil
plants to prove that the vegetation existing during the coal-
formation periods was similar to that now upon the globe.

During all this time there were no signs of human, mam¬

mal or bird life for the reason that no creature with lungs
could have breathed the deadly carbon dioxide with which ■
the air was saturated and have lived. Fossil remains tell us,
however, that fish, mollusks, crustaceans, reptiles and in¬
sects were plentiful. The atmosphere was heavily charged
with moisture and everywhere the climate was mild.

While the great bulk of American coal production comes
from seams of carboniferous age, later formations are also
represented in pur annual output. Thus coal of Triassic
Age is mined in a small section of North Carolina, while
that of Jurassic age is available in Alaska. The Upper Creta¬
ceous is the period during which the coals of western North
America were laid down, although the Tertiary is also
present as shown by the lignites and some of the coals of
subbituminous ranks. The Wyoming coals occur in the
Cretaceous Formation.

The quality of coals formed in different eras varies con¬
siderably, but the most valuable seams are always met within
the carboniferous formation, and it is noticeable that in coun¬
tries where coals of various ages occur, the carboniferous
coals are always given the preference, even though less ac¬
cessible than the coals of the later formations. Coals of
Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary ages are generally of low
grade, soft, lignitic, and when of high grade owe their
superiority to local circumstances. They are chiefly mined
in those countries, or in sections of the country, in which
the Palaeozoic coals are absent.

Theories of Formation

We are now ready to inquire into the methods that Na¬
ture used in collecting these enormous masses of vegeta¬
tion which later were to be metamorphosed into our pro¬
ductive coal beds of today. There is no point connected
with coal which has been more discussed, some geologists
holding that coal has resulted from vegetation which grew
in the place where coal is now found, others that plants
were drifted to great distances and deposited at the mouths
of rivers. The former belief is called the “in situ” or “peat
bog" theory, the latter the “drift” or “estuary” theory.

The In Situ or Peat Bog Theory

The adherents to this theory tell us that during the coal
formation periods there were long stretches of country in
which the moist cool climate of the low ground encouraged
the profuse growth of plants and trees. A present day ex¬
ample of this condition is the Dismal Swamp of Virginia
and North Carolina where enormous masses of decaying
vegetation have been accumulating through hundreds of
years. Such a deposit is known as a peat bog. An examina¬
tion of peat shows it to consist of a carboniferous material,
usually fibrous to woody in form and varying in color from
light brown to black. Its carbonaceous nature is attributable
to the well-known fact that plant life is sustained by carbon
dioxide derived from the atmosphere. The fall of leaf, limb,
plant or tree, therefore, transfers to earth the carbonaceous
matter which the original plant life extracted from the air,
when exposed to atmospheric conditions, such fallen vegeta¬
tion meets with complete disintegration, but if it falls into
water and is submerged, as happens in swamps, the oxidation
of the carbon is largely prevented. Thus the organic matter
accumulates indefinitely and forms peat bogs.

Another proof advanced in favor of the peat bog theory
is the close relationship existing between certain samples of
peat and some of the lignite coals. Points of similarity can
also be found in comparing lignite with subbituminous
coal, and in like manner each rank of coal has resemblances
to the coal of the rank next below. This finding accounts
for the prevalence of the “pea't to anthracite” theory, anthra-

January, 1929

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Ideal View of a Carboniferous Forest and Marsh.

cite being regarded as the most highly metamorphosed con¬
dition of the original peat deposits.

Additional arguments advanced by the believers of the

1. The purity of the coal indicates the absence of sedi¬
ment carriers, such as rivers, waves, tidal currents and wind-
formed currents.

2. Coal, like peat, is composed of completely disorganised
carbonaceous matter.

3. The almost invariable presence of fireclay underlying

4. Stumps of trees still erect, with their roots still fixed
in the fireclay.

1. Progressive increase in the carbon-hydrogen ratio in
coals, thus favoring the peat to anthracite theory.

to sea vast quantities of timber and vegetal matter is cited
as an example of what was happening during primeval days,
only on an immensely greater scale.

Other reasons advanced for belief in the drift theory are:

1. Occurrence of coal lying immediately on igneous rocks.

2. Absence of underclay in some seams.

3. The finding of prostrate tree trunks.

4. Vegetal deposits found in deltas.

1. The stratified nature of coal seams.

In the succeeding article the combining of these theories
will be taken up.

The Tesla Coil

The Drift or Estuary Theory

Onp of the amating facts revealed bv the development of
the various coal fields is the vastness of unbroken areas. The
Pittsburgh . seam, according to Ashley, x i4 continuous
throughout 6,000 square miles of territory; the seam known
as No. 9 in Kentucky underlies some 2?,000 square miles in
this state and the neighboring states of Indiana and Illinois,
all of it continuous. Visualising peat bogs of such tremen¬
dous extent taxes the credulity of the finite mind. Another
difficulty arises in accounting for the succession of strata
overlying the coal beds. These consist of sandstones, shales
and limestones. The first two mentioned are fresh water
origin and imply an inland location; the latter is salt water
formation and requires propinquity to the sea. The drift
. theory is depended upon to account for the immensity of
coal area and also for the presence of marine strata.

According to this theory, coal fields owe their origin to
enormous masses of water clogged drift deposited in es¬
tuaries, in the deeper parts primeval seas of in lakes. The
fact that rivers like the Mississippi are in our time carrying

X G. H. Ashley, Dept. Geo. and Hat. Res. Indiana 33rd
Annual Report 1 909.

By D. C. McKeehan

QOME of the most striking electrical phenomena are
produced by the high voltage discharges of a Tesla
Coil. When the high-voltage, high frequency currents
were first discovered, about forty years ago by Nikola
Tesla, they were of academic interest only and had little
practical value, and afforded a beautiful exemplification
of the principles of theoretical electricity. Today the
high frequency currents are of vast commercial impor¬
tance, being used in radio and for the production of arti¬
ficial lightning at about a million to five million volts.

One thinks of high voltage in terms of complicated
apparatus and a myriad of wires and things, however, the
Tesla Coil apparatus is a very simple affair.

The accompanying diagram will serve in describing the
various parts.

“A” represents the source of electric energy and may be
any house-lighting circuit, having a frequency of sixty
cycles per second, and of sufficient capacity at 110 or
220 volts.

“B” is a small commercial type of transformer that raises
the voltage from 110 or 220 volts to about 13,000 volts.

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In some cases a large induction coil, which is quite inex¬
pensive to make, is used.

“C” is what is termed a condenser and consists of thir¬
teen plates of double thickness of ordinary window glass
18 inches by 24 inches. The plates are covered with tin
foil on each side leaving a space of at least three inches
between the'edge of the glass and the tin foil. They are
assembled in the rack about two inches apart.

“D” represents the Tesla Coil from which extremely
high voltages may be taken , at terminals “F” and “G”.

“E” is an adjustable spark-gap.

The primary of the Tesla Coil consists of thirty turns
of No. 0 B S’ S copper wire, properly coiled and slipped
into a long glass container.

Surounding the primary and about two inches removed
therefrom is the secondary coil consisting of 500 turns
of No. 26 B & S double cotton covered magnet wire
wound upon the outside surface of a second glass jar.

The primary and secondary coils are assembled in an
insulated container, preferably glass, and submerged in
an insulating oil.

The reader will note that the Tesla transformer is not
built with an iron core.

The terminals of the transformer “B” are highly dan¬
gerous and any wires connected with them are, of course,
equally so, and should be adequately supported and se¬
curely placed and guarded beyond the range of accidental
contact.

The current taken from “F” and “G” is not dangerous
although the shock may be uncomfortable to the uninitiat¬
ed at the point where the discharge enters their body.

The current from terminals “F” and “G” is of the mag¬
nitude of 150,000 volts and a frequency of 10,000 cycles
per second.

In operating the apparatus the high voltage from trans¬
former “B” is allowed to jump across the sphere-gap “E”,
which produces an oscillating current of great rapidity, in
fact, varies so fast that the human nervous system fails to
feel it to any great extent.

A great many experiments, such as lighting a gas jet
from the finger tips at a distance of eight to ten inches is
one of the common ones.

If a coil of heavy copper wire be wound eight inches in
diameter with about six turns and connected across the
terminals “F-G” the oscillatory current will experience
considerable difficulty in traversing it. A spark gap con¬
nected around the coil will indicate a potential of several
thousands volts. A few feet of No. 30 B S’ S magnet
wire laid across will “choke back” the current and be .left

This is the type of apparatus often used on the vaude¬
ville stage to show spectacular electrical effects.

Staying Where You Are—Or Going Somewhere

It was the Red Queen (in “Through the Looking
Glass”) who laid down a principle of getting ahead which
applies to some of us today.

Alice complained that though they had been running
some time they hadn’t got anywhere.

“You have to run this fast to stay where you are,"
said Red Queen. “If you want to get somewhere you
must run twice as fast.”

Magazine January, 1929

The New Year

A New Year is here. We most often picture it, each
New Year as it comes, as a beautiful cherub-like baby—
brand new. And while there will probably be a tremendous
lot of old things about this new year—days and weeks and
months, and the same old things to be dqne, it still is some¬
thing quite new and so we must regard it. It is something
very precious and it is ours. And the experiences that will
come to us during the year—and the way we deal with
them—will make the year; this new breadth of stuff woven
on the Loom .which is ours. Its color. Its texture. Its

Or, going back to our cherub-like New Year, it, too, is
ours in all its impressionableness, all its newness and fresh¬
ness and loveliness. And it will be ours until we present it,
next December, a completed year, to the Builder of the Age.
And even then it will be ours still because we’ve grown with
the year and its stuff has gone into our lives.

We think of the year-making which our generation does
and our nation does—but we think too, of this—that what
we’ve put into this year-making we’ve also put into our
own characters. Wasn’t it Emerson who said in one of his
essays: “There is a time in every man’s education when
he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imi¬
tation is suicide; that though the wide universe is full of
good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but
through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is
given him to till. The power which resides in him is new
in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can
do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

Repartee

Someone rises ever and anon to advise us that the art
of conversation is dying; and to decry the fact that we
hurry our dinners and listen to music while dining; and that
we provide musical and other entertainment for our guests
when we have them—thus further adding to the demise of
the art of conversation. There is a vast difference between
the qualities that make for good conversation and those
that make for clever repartee but perhaps the same condi¬
tions are conducive to the development of both. In any
case it is worth remembering that conversation is an art and
to remember some of the famous bon mots in the way of
clever retorts that enliven the pages of history as collected
by John O. London’s Weekly.

Voltaire who had a tremendous reputation for saying
smart things once began praising, to an extraordinary ex¬
tent, Haller when he was mentioned by an English traveller.
The Englishman said such praise was not disinterested be¬
cause Haller spoke the reverse of highly of him. “Well,
well,” replied Voltaire, “perhaps we are both mistaken.”

John Philpot Curran is the Irishman’s high priest of
repartee. Here is one of the sayings attributed to him. A
wealthy barrister once said to Curran that “No man should
be admitted to the Bar who has not an independent landed
property.” “May I ask, sir,” said Curran, “how many acres
makes a wiseacre?”

Even the church did not escape his scathing satire. One
Sunday morning he was present at a sermon delivered by a
pastor with whom he was intimate. When the sermon was
over Curran met the preacher outside the church. "I hope,”
said the latter, you did not consider my sermon too long.”
“Not at all,” retorted Curran, “nor too deep either.”

Here’s an English one: The Prince Regent being in
Portsmouth one day and seeing Jack Towers across the
street shouted out, “Hello, Towers, I hear you are the
greatest blackguard in Portsmouth?” Towers replied with
a bow: “I hope your Royal Highness has not come here to
take away my character.”

This one, accredited to by-gone days sounds modern
enough to belong to us: A pompous peer once remarked
during a speech in the Upper House: “My Lord, I put
the question to myself!” And someone interjected: “What
a silly answer you must have got."

January } IQ2Q

Employes’ Magazine

“Transition”

By Will Durant

(Reviewed by Jessie McDiarmid.)

TWT ONTHS after everyone else has read “Transition” we
have only just finished it, and, thinking of a book to
review, have thought it would prove stimulating, whether or
not we can agree with such conclusions as are reached, and
whether or not we feel that the apparent nurpose for its
writing was sufficient.

Durant’s book of 1926, “The Story of Philosophy” holds
a unique place in current literature. He followed that
brilliant success with, in 1927, his first novel “Transition.”
His latest book has appeared in newspaper serial and is being
eagerly looked for in book form. He calls “Transition” a
“mental autobiography” and it took, and has held, a lead¬
ing place since its appearance. Durant himself tells that
he wrote it “con amore” as indeed he must when depicting
struggles between his own mental development and the ideas
of the parents he loved so dearly. We find ourselves utterly
in sympathy with the hero “Jack” who is Durant himself,
even when out of sympathy with his conclusions.

The novel is dedicated “To a tender mother and a perfect
father” and this dedication and his own statement that he
wrote it “with love” might seem to justify the opinion of a
friend that he wrote it in order to explain to his loved ones
his apparent apostasy from the church. We thought it had
more of an inevitableness than that. One reviewer, quoted
by the publishers, says: “it is a thrilling story, in many
ways a heroic one.” We agreed. It seems heroic to us—
this autobiography in which Durant tries to tell the effect
on his mind of the struggle for a religious faith; and the same
old search for truth that satisfies.

As a biography It is a delight, written with a beautiful
restraint which is a pleasant relief from popular realism.
He brings, too, a search for goodness. And he finds it!!
At the very beginning we love “Jack’s” delineation of an
Italian laborer who lived in his home and brought him treats
and candy as he says: “For I am sure that his gruff bestowal
Upon me of part of his unused fund of naternal tenderness
taught me, almost in my swaddling clothes, the genial kindli¬
ness that lies in the hearts of men.” And later on in a
parenthetical note to his readers he says: “The Reader will
be tired, by this time, of finding every man in this story a
nobleman, and every woman half a saint; he must not look
for villains here, because I have found none; and I believe
they are as rare in life as they will be in my book.”

And the educator of new Americans must love his descrip¬
tion of the “Micks” and “Sheenies” and “Canucks” as the
native born farmers called the factory workers of whom he
says: “They were a believing generation. They believed
that in this endless expanse called America there was a road
for every talent to rise to wealth and power. They frowned
upon the employer who worked them ruthlessly; but they
scorned with superior pride the young orator or the pallid
student who suggested that they take over these factories
and send members of their own class to rule the cities and
the states. They found a secret test in this gamble of the
individualistic life; they were aware that most of them would
lose; but as long as they did not know just who would win,
they wished the game to go on. Its uncertainty was its

“Jack” describes his childhood in a family of eleven chil¬
dren of French-Canadian lineage in a devout Catholic home.
He describes his family as perfect, his mother, half-angel
and his father, half-saint, “although he smilingly knows
they all had faults and absurdities.” He was carefully
trained by a devout Catholic mother and, at an early age,
found himself loving the Christ as a Hero.

He went through the period of first love, the value of
which—and the reality of which—he warmly and humor¬
ously defends. His discovery, as a lad, of pleasure in read¬
ing and his finding of Dickens,- is told whimsically. Then,
after a period of appreciation of the folks of such books, he
reads Darwin and other scientists of the Nineteenth Cen¬
tury. He is tossed hither and thither and thinks himself

an atheist. He is torn by pride, unhappiness and hypocri-
cies. That other men had gone through “the same slow
change from’ belief to unbelief failed to comfort me.” He
goes to New York and tries journalism and a friend drew
our attention to one of the reasons for his decision that he
did not care to be a newspaper reporter, not the only one
he records, “because behind every column of news I saw the
suffering of men and women.”

He tries socialism and conceives the idea of using the
church as an instrument to make the world socialistic. In
his youthful enthusiasm he exclaimed: “Once we get into
battle we may find the younger clergy anxious for the move,
then we’ll rebuild- America and renew the church.” He
was doomed to disappointment and had no success in t@-
capturing the old faith or the old piety.

In a feeble effort to make money (only $5.00), and with¬
out realising into what his action would lead him, he accepts
an invitation to lecture at the “Freedom Association” on
“The Origins of Religion.” For this he is excommunicated
from the church. He is overwhelmed with grief, partly, but
not wholly, because of the effect it will have on his mother.
He tries to keep it from her and is assisted by his brother
but finds it impossible and, still hearing his mother’s cry:
“My God! My God! Give me back my son!” he hastily
leaves home leaving his father and sisters to minister to his
heartbroken mother.

He becomes, at twenty-six years of age, “the principal,
sole teacher and chief learner” of the “Freedom Modern
School,” and in the eyes of the world an anarchist. In the !
school he teaches the children of anarchists in an educa¬
tional experiment in which Emma Goldman is interested.

He is invited to join a friend in a trip to Europe and,
enjoying it tremendously, returns nevertheless with a pas¬
sionate love fot America—feels he has discovered his own
country.

The next steps in his life are love and a very happy
marriage: years of study at Columbia University, the sciences
and philosophy, then the war. And the clearness of hs
description of the first Armistice Day and what it meant,
stands out.

And still he doesn’t find the answer to his early question¬
ing. But he is reconciled to his family and we quote: “I
thrill yet at the mention of His name and hunger yet for the
ideal life he wished men to lead; if to love Him and hear
Him gladly is to be a Christian then skeptic and pagan
though I be, I am Christian too and Christ is still my God.”

He enjoys the satisfaction of an unsuspectedly profound
parental love. Of the birth of his daughter he says: “I
knew that a million such tots came into the world every

day-■ But I was comfortably like others; J

was sure that I had never seen so fair an infant face before."

In parenthood he finds contentment—and hope. He
stresses hope. He eludes the thought of death and says:

“But when Ethel came-I became almost

reconciled to mortality, knowing that my spirit would sur¬
vive me enshrined in a fairer mould than mine, and that
my little worth would somehow be preserved in the heritage
of men. In a measure the Great Sadness was lifted from
me; and where I had seen omnipresent death I saw now
everywhere about me the pageant and triumph of life.”

And if, at the beginning of our reading we felt like
questioning young folks who, having read about the irrecon¬
cilability of science and “the religion of our fathers, think

they must now have doubts-and do so ^ust as a

-medical student has the pains and aches of his study in
symptomatic diagnosis, by. the simple law of mental sugges¬
tion, most certainly we have ceased to question “Jack.” We
sympathise with him.

And now he closes: “So dear readers I close my book and
I bid you good fortune.”

He has left doubts and questioning to go swimming with
his daughter.

Apple Pie

“Will you have pie, sir?”

“Is it customary?”

“No, it’s apple.”

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The Poet Bums and the Bums Country

By Eugene McAuliffe

R obert burns was bom .

ary 25, 1759, in a clay-built,
story cottage, wearing a thatched roof.

This cottage, now a, world
shrine, still stands in the little
settlement of Alloway, fast by
Ayr, or Auld Ayr, as this vil¬
lage is affectionately called.

Close by Alloway the ruins of
the Kirk of Alloway, in whose
churchyard Burns’ parents lie,
yet stands. The poet’s father,

William Burnes or Bu
(as he spelt his name)
structed the frail little dwell¬
ing with his own hands, and
when the son Robert, the first
born of William Burnes and
Agnes Brown, his wife, was
but a week old, the clay walls
of the cottage under the stress
of a driving rain, gave way
at midnight and the infant
poet and his mother were car¬
ried by the father through the
to a neighboring hovel.

William Burnes was, in his humble
station, a man who commanded great
respect. He had received the ordi-
dary learning of a Scottish parish
school and thereafter and throughout
his life, he read and studied such books as he could obtain.
He was a religious man, even writing a little theological
manual for the use of his children. Against the narrow
dogma and tyrannical conduct of the so-called “Auld Licht”
party in the Scottish Church, there had sprung up the
“New Lichts,” who demanded some relaxation of the exist¬
ing Calvanistic bonds, and who preached the doctrine of
charity and tolerance. It was to this less harsh branch of
the church that the father belonged, and the religion he
taught his children was more akin to that common to this
day. Neighbors and family alike accorded William Burnes
respected reverence and the poet painted his father in colors
that will never fade. He was “the saint, the father, and the
husband;” of the “Cottars’ Saturday Night.” The poet’s
mother was a woman of little book education but of marked
ability as a mother and a housewife, particularly skilled
in dairying. She was, however, unlike her husband, of a
light and joyous disposition, well versed in folk-song and
legend, and the poet, the first of seven children, doubtless
inherited his singing soul from her.

When the son Robert was in his seventh year, his father
borrowed money to stock a little farm which he rented at
Mount Oliphant, and when the boy was sixteen he was
doing a man’s work in the fields, overstraining his immature
physique in doing his share toward enabling his father to
keep the then growing family’s head above water. In 1777
the family moved some ten miles away to Lochlea, where in
1784 the father died.

At Mount Oliphant “love and poetry began with him,”
and when he was yet but fifteen the daughter of the local
Miller of Perclewan, Nelly Kilpatrick, a year younger than
her lover, offered the inspiration of his first song. As the
roughly clad plough-boy picked the nettle-thorns and
thistles out of the girl’s bleeding hands, gathered while
gleaning wheat, pity changed to love and he called her his
“bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass” and in her praise he sang;

The grinding bitter poverty that at¬
tended the Burnes family, the strug¬
gle made by the poet’s God fearing
parents to feed, clothe and
educate a family of seven, are'
too well known to every lover
of Burns’ verse. The poet’s
father, by nature deeply reli¬
gious, was ever oppressed with
anxiety for the future of his
children. His was an age
when the task of securing even
the barest necessities taxed
the resources of every poor
man, while the mother’s cheer¬
ful nature kept her from sur¬
rendering to the pressure of
dire poverty. The expression
of anxious care felt by the cot¬
tager parents found utter¬
ance in the poet’s “Cottars
Saturday Night” wherein he

The poet Robert Burns from a painting
in the Scottish National Gallery,
Edinburgh.

And proffer up to Heav’n the warm
request.

That he who stills the r;

And decks the lily fair in flow’ry pride,

Would in the way His wisdom sees the best,

For them and for their little ones provide;

But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.”

The piety that was ingrained in the soul of the father
doubtless gathered much of its nourishment within the
walls of the “Auld Kirk Alloway” built in the 17th Cen¬
tury. The “Auld Kirk” stands today, a ruin surrounded
with the graves of worshipers long gone to rest. Relic
hunters generations ago, carried off its roof, and ivy, as if
to heal the wounds, streams across its walls. The little
church bell that has not called worshipers together for
more than a century and a half, hangs mutely in the eastern
gable. When the father, William Burnes, out of the rever¬
ence for “Gods Acre” that was characteristic of him, peti¬
tioned the magistrates of Ayr to enclose the little Kirk Yard
where he, his wife, and some of his children were ultimately
destined to lie, he had no thought that this humble burying
ground was destined to become a world’s shrine.

Who of us have not thrilled to the shivering ghostliness
' of Burns’ “Tam O’Shanter’s Ride?” Tam was a half-legen¬
dary neer-do-well who rode his good mare Meg from the
door of a public house in Ayr to the Brig of Doon, one dark
and stormy night; a night of wind and driving rain, with
the crash of thunder and flash of lightning, deafening, blind¬
ing, all the way, across the waste of sandy knolls and broken
marshy ground. Tam approached the old Kirk after pass¬
ing through morass and rough ground, ground covered with
gorse and brushwood, the site of bygone murders, and in a
bad state of mind, when at last he comes to the river
Doon, and;

“Before him Doon poors all his floods;

The doubling storm roars thro’ the woods;

The lightnings flash from pole to pole;

Near and more near the thunders roll;

When, glimmering thro’ the groaning trees,

Kirk-Alloway seem’d in a bleese.”

A few steps brought the now terrified Meg close to the
Kirk when Tam, through an opening in the south wall “saw

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The “Auld Brig O’ Doon,” across which rode Tam O’
Shanter on Meg.

heart,” but she denied his suit. Of all Burns’ love songs,
“Highland Mary” and “To Mary in Heaven” will ever be
thought of as the most inspired and the most beautiful. Like
Lincoln s Anne Rutledge, Mary Campbell, who died in her
twentieth year, was not for him.

Immediately back of the public-house of “Johnnie Pigeon”
as Burns called him, in the village of Mauchline, lived a
master-mason and small contractor named Armour. Only
a narrow lane separated the public house from the Armour
Cottage and the poet quickly learned of the existence of the
mason’s daughter, Jean Armour. Jean’s father was a man
of consequence in the village, a strict member of the “Auld
Lict church who “would raither hae seen the deil himsel’
comin to the hoose to coort his dochter than Burns.” The
poet first met Jean at a dance next door to Mauchline Castle.
Burns’ faithful dog followed him everywhere, the dance no
exception, and when he took a lassie in his arms the dog
followed him through the dance, and this led him to say
in Jean’s hearing: “I wish I could get a lass to like me as

Kirk Alloway, where the bodies of the poet’s father
and mother lie and where “Cutty-Sark” led the dance of
the witches.

January, 1929

well as my dog.” A few days later the poet with his dog
passed Jean engaged in the task of bleaching clothes on the
village green. Jean paused to ask, “Hae ye got ony lassie
to like ye as weel as your dog yet?” Burns stopped to
chat and their love-story had its beginning.

, I n 1788, Burns and Jean Armour began housekeeping
in one room of a house that still stands in what is now
Castle Street Mauchline. In Mauchline, Burns lived out
his many moods. His ’’maunderings and flittering” gave Jean
many a heartache. It was in this village that he wrote “Ye
Banks and Braes O’Bonnie Doon” and much else of his
best. Here he presided as Master of the Masonic Lodge and
here he sat out many a winter night at the Whiteford Arms,
keeping the company in an uproar with his scintillating
genius. In later days when the shadows of want and failing
health overtook him, he could be seen stalking through the
village streets, his hat down low, his brows knitted in defh
ance of the “kintra clatter,” a victim of remorse and life
disappointed. A few years later when in the pride of his
e back to the village of'Mauchline,

Edinburgh fame he ci

The poet’s house in Dumfries, where he died.

he rode proudly down Cowgate, to leap off his horse at the
entrance to the tavern, throwing the reins to the stable-boy
in the lordly way that he had learned in his absence.

But the way of pride was not Burns’ way. He belonged
to the soil, poverty was his heritage. For long the world
had looked askance at his philandering and his improvi¬
dence. To be without some sense of thrift is a besetting
sin in the eyes of the Scot, and so at the end of June, 1796,
he came in to Dumfries, then his home. With great difficul¬
ty he walked from the cart to his own door, and to the bed
from which he was destined not to again rise in this life.
On the morning of the 21st day of July, as the sun rose,
he died. Four days later, Sunday evening, July 27, 1796,
he was laid to rest in the Churchyard of St. Michaels, Dum¬
fries.

In 1879, one hundred years after the poet’s birth, men
and women who loved and revered Robert Burns, met in
the City of Boston to pay tribute to his genius and his
memory. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the “Sage of Concord,”
then nearing sixty, was the last to speak on Burns. In lan¬
guage that glowed like white-hot iron under the smith’s
hammer, he paid undying tribute to the plough-boy poet.

“The memory of Burns,—I am afraid heaven and
earth have taken too good care of it to leave us any¬
thing to say,—every name in broad Scotland keeps his
fame bright. The memory of Burns,—every man’s,
every boy’s and girl’s head carries snatches of his
songs, and they say them by heart and, what is strangest
of all, never learned them from a book, but from mouth
to mouth.”

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The Holiday Season With Us

Santa Claus Came to See Us—Every One of Us

And filled the stockings; then turned with a jerk.

And laying his linger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all Hew like the down of a thistle —

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night!”

H E SURELY did come to visit us—everyone of us—
the joiliest, rosiest, busiest old Santa we’ve ever seen.
Not a single person was forgotten. Not one boy or girl or
friend. Of course old Santa had a rather unusual lot of
help everywhere on Christmas Day and for weeks before.

In Cumberland, Superintendent E. G. Blacker told us,
the children called it “the best Christmas yet”—and indeed
the committees would have been disappointed had it not
been so and wish to thank most especially the members of
Local Unions 2318 and 2337 who furnished treats. The
Community Council took charge of the tree and Messrs. P.
A. Young and E. Travis arranged a musical program as fol-

Romola March.School Orchestra

“Silent Night” and “It Came Upon a Midnight

Clear”.Girls’ Chorus

Cornet Duet (Sacred song).

.Eddie Remit? and Eddie Subic

Song (Winter).Sunday School Chorus

“Blue Bells and Violets” wait?.School Orchestra

Saxophone Quartet (Melody).

.Junior Saxophone Quartet

Song (Christmas Bells).Primary Children

“Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and

“Joy to the World".Girls Chorus

Selection (Red Lips).School Orchestra

Saxophone Solo (When Clouds Have Vanished and
Skies Are Blue).Marjorie Dexter

And Santa, who arrived at the close of the program must
have enjoyed the old Christmas songs like “Hark the Herald
Angels” and “Silent Night” sung by the girls. He looked
so happy. And his pack was laden. And before he left he
thanked Messrs. Joe Wesco, H. J. Groutage and Sam Dexter
who helped him on behalf of Local Union No. 2337 and
Messrs. Frank Buchanan and T. E. Edwards who reptee-
sented Local Union 2318 on the committee; and D. R. Ed¬
wards, C. C. Snyder, John Brown, Mrs. Wright Walker,
Mrs. Mary Draycott and Miss Anna Miller of the Communi¬
ty Council; and the Cumberland Band members for their
music. (There are thirty-five boys in the Cumberland High
School and thirty bo”s in the Cumberland Band.)

And in Reliance Santa left a note to thank those who
had prepared for his coming. He was in such haste to get
away, and over to Winton that he couldn’t wait to talk much
but he left a lovely note of thanks, written on red paper,
remembering A. L. Zeiher, President of the Local Union and
members of the Christmas committee; Johnny Kovach, Wm.
Johnston, Mrs. H. E. Buckles, Mrs. J. Reese, Mrs. Wm.
Johnston, Mrs. J. Flew, Mrs. J. Baxter and Wm. Sisk, Presi¬
dent of the Community Council. They’d arranged for two
trees and a gift for every child, and treats for everybody
and a Christmas play given by the Reliance schools.

Just every single member of the Winton Community
Council helped to plan for Santa’s visit there, and every
single one of the organi?ations its members represent;
Thomas Thomas, President; Rudolph Menghini, Secretary;
Mrs. R. Jolly, Girl Scout Captain; Mrs. E. Henderson of
the P. T. A.; Principal Miss E. Brown; Mrs. Harry Warm-
ner of the Woman’s Club and Messrs. Tom Hanks and Fred
Clark of the U. M. W. of A. There were three hundred
and forty children on Santa’s list. The Woman’s Club
members sewed the bags to hold the treats, spandy red and
green ones. Then there were tiny banks and a beautifully
arranged program; and two Sunday School Christmas pro¬
grams prepared by the religion classes of the Church of
Latter Day Saints and the Union Sunday School.

Hanna Theatre was a veritable fairyland of beauty and
light and cheer when Santa Claus arrived there on Christ¬
mas Eve. Fifty of the children gave a Christmas playette
and the big new theatre had to bulge and swell to hold all the
rest who came to enjoy the program, pay their respects to
Santa and receive his gift to them. Reverend J. M. Johns¬
ton, Reverend Francis Bacon and Reverend S. L. Morgan,
Mrs. Hugh Rennie, Mrs. John Huhtala, Mrs. T. D. Mangan
and Miss Irene Carlson were all as busy as bees helping get
ready for the celebration and Superintendent T. H. Butler
was chairman of the gathering and greeted Santa Claus
when he arrived.

Superior is so large it needed two trees and two programs.
And Santa visited in every single home in Superior, starting
early in the afternoon of Christmas Eve and jingling his
sleigh bells as he drove up an down the hill-side roads making
sure that he visited every boy and girl. And he kept right
on through the twilight and until dusk while every home
was brightly lighted to help guide him. The women’s organ-
i?ations had helped him by preparing bags and a joint com-

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“Scooters look like new when they’ve had a coat of red paint and doll beds aren’t hard to mend and mechanical
toys can be made to run,” say these Boy Scouts who have turned the basement of the Baptist Church into a toy-
mendery in their role of Santa’s assistants.

f t (!Mb

A. EL Anderson

Forty years of service in one organisation is enough to
make the man who has so served remarkable, and that is
only one of the many, reasons we honor “Gus’ Anderson,
Rock Springs’ member of The Union Pacific Coal Company
Old Timers’ Association.

Mr. Anderson was born in Kewanee, Illinois, in 1863.
When he was twenty years old he came west and began to
work for The Union Pacific Coal Company at Twin Creek,
He has, however, spent the major portion of his life in
the city of Rock Springs where, thirty-six years ago on No¬
vember 29th last, he
was married to Miss
Emily Sutton, whose
father was foreman
of No. 3 Mine and
later one of the foun¬
ders of the mercantile
firm of Thorpe and
Sutton, well remem¬
bered by all old time
residents of Rock
Springs.

Mr. Anderson has
been secretary of the
Elks Lodge for years,
and carried the duties
of this office for the
largest fraternal or¬

A. H. Anderson

ganisation in the district through the busy days when the
splendid Elks Home was being built.

Two sons compose the family of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson;
Arthur, of The Union Pacific Coal Company Auditing staff,
at home; and Fred, of the staff of the Glendale News, Glen¬
dale, Los Angeles, California.

Trips to the north country, to Daniel and beyond, and
week-ends in the mountains are among Mr. Anderson’s pet
diversions during the summer, as they used to be cycling with
old pals like Bob Muir for company and the trails north
and south to beckon, or athletic days to plan for and sports
nearer home than the week-end playground of these days.
And perhaps it is early association with a traveller like
Bob Muir which induces the frequent trips to California
which Mr. Anderson is fond of taking.

Edward Cook, Former President
of Rock Springs Central
Labor Body, Dies

News of the tragic death in No. 8 Mine of Ed. Cook,
member of The Union Pacific Old Timers Association, and
a prominent labor leader of Rock Springs, came as a distinct
shock to the many, many friends in our towns who had
known and admired him, and who know and admire the
members of his family, left to mourn his loss.

Mr. Cook was born in Lanarkshire, England, in 1875,
and in April, 1904, he came to America and to Rock

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Springs’ Labor Day celebrai

irs he has been a resident of
a the district have been more
active in the interests
of labor than he. Just
recently he had re¬
ceived a badge illus¬
trating his service as
a past President of
the Central Labor
Body at Rock Springs.
He had been Presi¬
dent of the Executive
Committee, and was,
at the time of his
death, official organ¬
izer for the Retail
Clerks’ Union. -He
had frequently served
as a member of the
Hospital Commission,
and was especially in¬
terested in the Rock
\ giving his time unstintingly

He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the
Golden Eagles, and the membership of both of these or¬
ganizations attended the funeral services in a body.

He was a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints,
and the funeral services, which began at his home on Rain¬
bow Avenue, were continued at the church, with Bishops
J. B. Young and J. I. Williams officiating. Pallbearers were
William Wilson, Thomas Smith, Ted Samuels, John Ret¬
ford, George Krichbaum and Anton Visintainer.

Decedent is survived by his wife, six children, and two
grandchildren, all well known in Rock Springs and espe¬
cially to The Union Pacific Coal Company family. They
are: Mrs. John Firmage, Jr., Arthur and Harold Cook,
maried and living in Rock Springs, Tommy of the Rock
Springs’ store and Misses Ethel and May, at home. To
them we extend our heartfelt sympathy.

First Miner at Cumberland Dead

(From the Kemmerer Gazette.)

Jack Haikio, aged 65 years, who has the distinction of
shoveling the first dirt when Cumberland No. 1 Mine was
opened in 1’900, died at the L. C. M. Hospital at 6 o’clock
Monday evening, December 3rd, within three minutes after
he had arrived at that
institution. Heart
trouble was the cause
of death. Haikio, who
was single, had just
arrived in the city by
motor with a party of
friends from Evans¬
ton, where he had
spent Sunday visit¬
ing, and complaining
of illness on the way
here, he was taken di¬
rectly to the hospital,
where he suddenly ex¬
pired as he was being
undressed for a cot.

He had laid off work
about two months
prior to his demise.

Haikio, who is a Jack Haikio, first Cumberland

native of Finland, Miner,

had worked at Cum¬
berland continuously since No. 1 opened, the exceptions
being when he would take a trip to his native land, three in
number in the 28 years. On one of these trips he was ac¬
companied by his sister, who became Mrs. Jack Neimi, and
who has since passed away. He is survived by his brother-
in-law and two nieces and two nephews and a sister. and
brother in Finland.

Funeral services for the departed were held on Sunday,
December 9th, at the Finn Hall, Diamondville, and inter¬
ment made in the Kemmerer City cemetery.

Old Timer Paul Dugas, of Superior, with Mrs. Dugas and their family. They are, at the back, standing:
Josephine, Paul, Jr., Mrs. A. Pecolar and Anna; center, standing: Louise; front row: Mrs. Kladianos, Helen, Mr.
Dugas, Mrs. Dugas, Emma and Mrs. Yongoyen; and on their parents’ knees are: Elizabeth and William.

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Samuel Samuels Called Home

Somehow one is glad to have heard the “Lord now lettest
Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word,”
of the Episcopal choral services sung by the choir of the
Rock Springs’ Episcopal Church, at the funeral services cf
old-timer Samuel Samuels before having to record the pass-
ing of this old friend which took place on December 4th,
1928—and to have caught a reflection of the Christian
faith which had so characterised his life.

Mr. Samuels, who,.vras 79 years old at the time of his
death, had been ailfAg through the fall months following
an injury received while at work about a year ago, and was
attended by the loving pare of his seven children who all
reside in Rock Springs.

Mr. Samuels was born in Wales in 1858 and in 1907 he,
with-Mrs. Samuel and their family, came to the United
States and directly to Wyoming, to join three of the mem¬
bers who had preceded them to America and were located
in Rock Springs.

He entered the employ of The Union Pacific Coal Com¬
pany and two years ago became a member of the Old Timers
Association. He was also a member of the United Mine
Workers of America and of the Royal Order of Moose.

Surviving him are his sons and daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth
McIntosh, William and George Samuels, Mrs. Jennie Law-
son, Mrs. Mary Ann Edwards, Edward Samuels and Mrs.
Carrie Knox, all of Rock Springs; and two brothers, George
and Edward, residing in Wales. Mrs. Samuels preceded
him to the Great Beyond twelve years ago.

Mr. Samuels was a devout member of the Church of the
Holy Communion and has served as vestryman for years.
His son, George Samuels, is leader of the choir of this church

Old Timer Samuel Samuels, with Mr. Wm. Samuels,

RIrs. r.-fcrtha Eamuch Brston end Mister Ca-1 Buston.

January, 1929

and fourteen other members of the family are members of
the same choir.

As was surely fitting he was carried to his last resting
place from this church he had loved so dearly and served so
faithfully, Reverend R. E. Abraham and the vested choir
conducting the service.

The Pioneers

Our fathers toiled, but in a "lorious fight,

The God of nations led them by the'hand;

With pillared smoke by day and fire by night

They wrought like heroes in their promised land;
The wildnerness was conquered by their might.

They made for God the marvel He has planned—
A land of homes where toil could make men free,
The final masterpiece of Destiny.

—Peter McArthur.

Frank L. McCarty, Walt Smalley and Ben Bagnell on a
hunting trip in the early days of Cumberland, Wyoming.

(Picture by courtesy of Mrs. A. Salmon, Roc\ Springs)

A Prayer For the New Year

By Violet Alleyn Storey

God, patient of beginnings.

Help us this day to see

Time has no real beginning, no real end—

Just continuity!

Though we are glibly saying
In one excited breath,

“The Old Year dies; the New Year lives!”-- Oh, God,
Teach us Time knows no death!

Bid us consider gardens- -
Seeds planted in the May,

Then flowers, then frost, then rest, and flowers once more
And Time yields life this way!

Show us now cause for trusting.

Who would be fearful when

Years go and come, for life Time bears away.

It will bring back again.

Teach us that years, in passing,

Heal, pardon, make us wise.

Teach us that days, in coming, bring with them
Fulfilment and surprise.

God, patient of beginnings,

Help us this day to see

In earthly bulbs, spring flowers; in man, the Christ;

In years, eternity!

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Pictures In Our Rock

J. McD.

Oheee! Oheee! Lookee! Lookee! Elephants coming
up the hill in the circus parade. Oh! Lookee! Isn’t it
grand? Isn’t it all grand?

Our visitor was making her first visit to the rocky, sandy,
sage-brushy hills of the desert country of Southwestern
Wyoming—dreary enough country to the realist who likes
his colors accurately applied, and difficult enough of induc¬
ing to a complete ignoring of grey hills that are grey, un¬
deniably.

And yet in the quiet of an early summer evening it was
grandeur undeniable that we saw as we drove along the
roads south and north of Rock Springs and found pictures
on our rocky hill faces.

And since it’s fashionable to tell Wyoming visitors tall
tales, and the visitor to Wyoming is usually ready for tall—
and broad tales (we remember descending a Union Pacific
train at Cheyenne, quite ready to admire cowboys and cow¬
girls on fleet and unruly steeds, and to see them run races
with our train for amusement, theirs and ours), it’s fair
enough to begin a vigorous use of the imagination on the
rock “shapes we pass on our drive, and to take, if we wish, a
trip around the world to find their counterpart.

We still remember our introduction to Haystack Butte
and the polite interest we took in a stack of hay at the in¬
sistence of our mischievous young hostess, and without ques¬
tioning the how of hay growing on the saged hills, or the

Haystack Butte, between Rock Springs and Pinedale.

value of hay if it were stacked—fifty desert miles from any¬
where.

And we remember our quickly voiced wish for a gun so
that an equally insistent young man might “bag that bear
up there ’ when he was sure it wasn’t “too long a shot”
from the road, one twilight evening as a rocky bruin
silhoutted himself in a convenient spot. Every district of
Wyoming likes to see its guests use their imagination.

But as the sun sinks and the most gorgeous sunsets we .
have ever seen color the whole sky and paint our queens
and elephants and turtles and bears, it’s not above our

1— Leucite Buttes, near Rock Springs. There’s a pot of
gold at the top.

2— A footstool for the Gods—or what will you have.

3— The first elephant in the parade is always the biggest,
especially if they come over a hill.

4 — Couldn’t you ride this turtle to

5— Your favorite dead and gone Queen, in Wyoming

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Finding a thrill in rock picture hunting back of No.
Four Mine Slope, Rock Springs: Mrs. J. H. Russell, Mrs.
Clyde Crofts, Harry Crofts and Mrs. Dave Faddis.

imaginations but our whole beings which are quickened by
an appreciation of the grandeur of our world—our Wyo¬
ming desert, and we are quite ready to say with our visitor:
Isn’t it all grand?

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She Does

Young Husband: “The old-fashioned girl certainly
knew how to get a dinner.”

His Wife: “So does the modern girl; but she uses a
different method.”—Answers.

Pig Headed

“Harold is awfully obstinate.”

“In what way?”

“It’s the hardest thing in the world to make him admit
I’m right when he knows I’m wrong.”—Tit Bits.

Poor Business

To a Jewish ex-service man an acquaintance remarked:
“So you were in the Army, Ikey?”

“Oh, I vas in the Army,” was the proud response.

“Did you get a commission?”

“No, only my wages!”—Humorist.

Too Literal

Mrs. Newwed (at dinner-table): “I was going to have
some sponge cake as a surprise for you, dear, but I confess

Mr. Newwed: “What was the matter?”

Mrs. Newwed: “I don’t know for sure, but I think the
store sent me the wrong kind of sponges."—Western Chris-
tion Advocate.

One Arm

Traffic Court Magistrate: “What’s the charge, officer?”

Traffic Cop: “Driving while in a state of extreme infatu¬
ation, your honor.”—Judge.

Revived

A recently appointed vicar, in his first sermon, spoke
severely against betting. After the sermon* was over a par¬
ishioner told the clergyman that one of the wealthiest mem¬
bers of his congregation was a notorious gambler. The
yicar, not wishing to begin badly, approached the rich man
after the service, and said:

“I’m afraid I must have offended you today, but—”

“Don’t mention it,” was the answer. “It’s a mighty bad
sermon that doesn’t hit me somewhere.”—London Daily
Chronicle.

Extraordinary

Vaudeville Agent (dubiously): “There are so many
strong-man acts just now—do you fellows do anything out
of the ordinary?”

Strong Man (impressively): “We wind up our act by
opening the drawers of an old-fashioned dresser.”—Life.

Paper Work

During the war a colonel was transferred to a new com¬
mand, and on reaching his depot he found stacks of useless
documents accumulated by his predecessors. He wired to
headquarters for permission to burn them, and received
this answer: “Yes, but make copies first.”—London Daily
Express.

A Boy Scout Troop Which
Studies Indian Rites

There is, in Colo¬
rado Springs, Colora¬
do, a troop of Boy
Scouts who have made
a special study of In¬
dian life. Their Scout¬
master is himself an
Indian and has taught
the boys of the troop
an understanding of
the Indian spirit in
interpreting by their
dances and sign lan¬
guage their feeling to¬
ward nature and the
great land they felt to
be theirs.

At the Girl Scout
pageant given by the
The Big Chief ready to lead his Colorado Springs Girl
braves. Scouts at the Nation¬

al convention and piq-
turing the history of the State of Colorado, this troop of
boys gave a portrayal of Indian rituals, dances and music.

Boy Scouts of Troop 10, Colorado Springs, who gave
a beautiful portrayal of Indian rituals and dances at the
Girl Scout pageant of the history of Colorado.

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A Letter to Mary

By Kate Master son

There are so many Marys in the world, and perhaps feui
places have a larger share than has our own part of the
world. We remember being in a group of nine little girls,
not long ago, of whom seven were named Mary. And when
a friend gave us this story about the Marys of history we
thought we'd li\e to share it with the many Marys among
our readers for whom it will have an especial interest .—

TT IS a joy to write you at this season of the year, when

the greatest of all the Marys wrapped the baby in her
mother-arms and looked into the face of the Christ-child.

For this reason your name will always suggest the mother
quality, although its origin is the Hebrew Marah, having
the general significance of sorrow. And the Bible Marys
were born to a heritage of suffering—the sacrifice that en¬
nobles and refines the nature, for one of the sad truths of
life is that existence in sunshiny rose gardens does not
bring out the best that is in us.

Mary, the Mother of Sorrows, is the symbolic woman,
and the position she has occupied in the Christian church
has served to keep alive all the tenderest and loveliest attri¬
butes of femininity through various era that have seemed
to threaten the sanctity of the home kingdom and woman’s
queenship there.

So your beautiful name has lived strong and steadfast
and true; first in the radiance of the Star of Bethlehem, in
the shadow of the cross; on thrones and on scaffolds; never
losing that peculiar vital attribute that keeps some names
veritably alive, while others languish and sometimes even
die through an ataxia of unpopularity.

Marys Have Been Saints and Martyrs

All that goes to make a name great and keep it great be¬
longs to Mary—a wealth of history and the peculiar fact
that the wicked women who have borne the name have been
among the great sinners whose names are as well known
today as those of the great saints.

Your name has had the acclaim of all nations and all
times. Poets and novelists and artists have seen in the
simple four-lettered word the strange, mysterious significance
that expresses womanhood at its best and finest.

There is a legion of famous Marys, who have kept the
flame burning before the shrine. There were the three
Marys who gathered at the Sepulcher, faithful—as women
are—to their beloved even after the tomb has closed upon

Saints there were by the score—one, an Egyptian who
underwent a conversion as great as that of Saint Augustine.
She wandered in the desert for forty-seven years until she
died—surely a tragic and dramatic figure in the annals of
saintly history!

This touch of tragedy and dramatic setting has always
lingered near the name. Martyrs have made it renowned—
one wonderful Florentine lady of title, originally called
Catherine, having chosen .the name Mary and the motto
“To suffer and to die” for the faith.

There Are Many Queenly Marys

The history of the Queen Marys makes a volume teeming
with romance and tragedy and happenings connected with'
all the great events in history.

Of the queens most famous, there are those two wonder¬
ful and beautiful women—Marie Antoinette of France, and
Mary, Queen of Scots. Both were born with surpassing

charm, and a beauty that would have given them power
even though far from the throne. They were as rich in
faults as they were in fairness and wit, and both were be¬
headed. The history of Marie Antoinette is the history of
the French Revolution. It began with her childhood, and
the events of her court have made material for plays and
paintings by the greatest writers and artists.

Her piquant, tragic career was not so deeply somber as
that of the gentl.e Scottish Mary, about whom fate wove a
cruel web that finally enmeshed her. There was a Mary
of Hungary and there were several Spanish Queen Marys.
There was one of Portugal, and a cruel Mary de Medicis,
who was crowned queen one day before the murder of her
husband, Henry of Navarre. These French Marys spelled
their names Marie,—and pronounced it differently—hut
this was not, with them, an affectation, as it is with our
American Maries.

You, Mary, who read this letter, are not, we hope, one
of the American Maries. Charming as the French form is,
its use here comes from a superficial fashion. The other
simpler name is much more beautiful.

Mary Should Not Be Nicknamed

In fact, despite the many delightful diminutives and the
other forms of Mary—Molly, Polly, Miriam and the ex¬
tremely pretty Irish Maureen, we can find nothing so strong
and beautiful as Mary.

Happily, pet names, except for babies, are going out. The
Mays and the Maisies and Maries will grow fewer and fewer
as the world goes on getting more intelligent.

Be glad that you have a name that is in itself a passport;
on your card, signed to your letters—in all the documents
that-may come up in your life, “Mary” is impressive in its
truth and sturdy lack of pretentiousness.

We look to the Marys for no pettiness of virtue, no cheese¬
paring of knowledge, no- half-doing in whatever walk of
life they are placed.

There are names that dazsle and sparkle and are filled
with laughter and music, but none that have the glow of the
Eastern Star like Mary.

A Name to Live Up to

To bear this name is actually a charge to keep—a respon¬
sibility—to all those Marys who must learn to realise the
heritage that has come to them from the great women of the
dear dead past who have been their name-sisters.

The name of Mary—bequeathed to you of this twentieth
century—is like the pride of blood that must forever hold its
heirs true to their heritage.

Read through the great writers and poets—Dickens and
Scott and Byron, Burns and Southey—and learn the women
they choose to endow with this name of names.

Note how lighter poets have chosen others to sing to—.
for Mary is too close to the ideal for frivolous verse—so
the diminutives and other forms have been selected for the
laughing rhymes of Herrick and Dobson and Bunner.

That honest garden flower, the marigold, is named for
“virgin’s gold.” It is no florist’s bloom, nor bridal crown,
but is a joy to the garden—symbolic of the pure truth of
the name you bear.

Treasure the Heritage of Your Name

Treasure what is yours and maybe it will be your fate to
add to the splendid, simple fame of a name that through all
its tremendously dramatic history has preserved that fine,
true quality that so few names can boast.

Through all the ages the name of Mary has had its part
in the service and song that mark the great holiday of the

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year. It has the benediction of the altars wreathed in ever¬
green and fragrant lilies, where the Christmas gospel is read
in every land, telling us of that time when peace on earth
and good will toward men came to dwell with us forever.

To all the Marys, after a glad Christmas as you ought to
have, a New Year that will add honors to your name.

Diary of An Infant

MY ARRIVAL: The nurse held me up and said* “It’s a
boy.” Father shouted- “.Attaboy!” Everyone looked buoyant
and acted boisterous.'

THE HAY AFTER: I have been exhibited to five aunts,
four uncles, two grandpas, two grandmas and lots of cousins.
There is much division of opinion about my appearance.
Father always answers “He’ll get over it” when they say I
look like him. I wish he would change that joke once in a
while. I am beginning to dread it.

TWO WEEKS LATER: Why do grown-ups screw up
their faces and make funny sounds when they see me? It
drives me to tears. One uncle put up his palms to his ears
and said “Bow wow!” He looked so foolish that it made
me laugh. This pleased him immensely.

TWO MONTHS LATER: I am beginning to get used
to grown-ups and their ways. When I wish to fall asleep
' they like to pick me up; when I wish to be picked up they
say “Sh-h-h!” and tell me to go to sleep. One of my grand¬
mas is a dear. She took me up and began to rock me in her
arms. It felt good. Mother snatched me away and said,
“It isn’t being done these days. Holt forbids it.” I’d like
to meet that fellow Holt some day and give him a piece of
my mind.

FIVE MONTHS LATER: I wonder how big people
would like to be poked under the chin continuously. There
ought to be a society for the prevention of poking babies.
—It’s a stupid world.

ONE YEAR LATER: A baby hears more bad English
in one day than others do in weeks. I was feeling my
gums for new teeth and crying a bit to relieve my feel¬
ings when one of my aunts asked, “Does 00 ittie tootsie
wootsies hurt um ittie boy?” I am happy to say mother
put a stop to it. She said they must not talk baby talk to
me. Holt advises against it. I am beginning to think better
of that fellow Holt.

ONE YEAR AND A DAY: I love rubber heels to
eat and mush to play with. Mother wants it the other
way. Grown-ups are funny. They take the joy out of life.

I suppose I’ll have to be one some day.

Two leaders in the Tono classes for women: Mrs. Bert
Boardman, song leader; Mrs. Hans Peterson, in charge of
baby clinics.

Lady Astor Wears New Red
Dress

Lady Astor, the American girl who married Lord Astor
and is a member of the British House of Commons, will
always be “news,” not because she does sensational things
but because of what she is. However, just at the moment_
American newspapers are telling us something about her
which is cheering if not sensational. At the sessions of the
“House” she has always worn black or dark blue. Recently
she came in wearing a dress of a new shade of red with a
hat to match. 'And the members of the House of Commons
cheered!

Some of the things Lady Astor does savor of 'the tales
we hear about the doings of Dolly Madison and Alice Roose¬
velt—an extraordinary appreciation of others going along
with their daring and fun.

Lady Astor’s first speech after her re-election was on pro¬
hibition and phases of liquor control—a daring beginning
where brewers are wealthy and powerful and titles are some¬
times bought.

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The Lady With the Lamp

From “Lives Worth Remembering”

' II ’HERE was once upon a time a great war between
England and Russia; and in the wake of war there
always follow trouble and illness and death. The poor
soldiers, who are wounded in the defense of their country,
need the best of care and comforts. In order to provide
for these needs there' are, in our days, hospitals with
physicians and nurses trained to take care of those who
are ill.

But, at the time of this war between England and
Russia, there were very few hospitals, and trained nurses
were rarely to be found. Moreover, the fighting took place
on the Crimean peninsula, which is in the southern part
of Russia, near the Black Sea, a place where hospitals and
nurses had never even been heard of.

In this forsaken land, after a hard day’s fighting, the
wounded and sick had to lie either in the streets, where
they had fallen, or, at best, in ugly, damp places, where
the cold, hard floors and the unhealthful conditions killed
almost as many men as did the guns and cannon of the
enemy. Thus things went on, and daily the lot of the
soldiers grew more and more hopeless.

One of the English leaders had a friend named Florence
Nightingale, who was just the person to help in such a
difficulty: and though he at first hesitated to appeal to her,
because he knew she herself was far from strong and well,
he did at last write her a stirring letter, telling her of the
terrible needs of the poor sufferers in the Crimea.

Florence Nightingale had carefully studied the art of
nursing, and knew perfectly how to manage a hospital;
and she also knew where to find other women whom she
could train to help her in the great work she was asked
to undertake. She did not hesitate an instant to take
up the task which had been appointed for her. Waiting
only long enough to collect a large sum of money and a
small band of helpers, this noble woman set out at the
earliest day possible.

From the moment Florence Nightingale appeared in the
midst of that suffering and disorder, everything changed.
What she did was done so quickly and so quietly that it
seemed almost like a miracle . Dilapidated old houses were
transformed into clean hospitals with rows of comfortable
beds. Day and night she worked among her boys, as she
called them, washing and feeding them and nursing them

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Harriet Pitchford,
Green River,
first grandchild
of Old Timer
John Doak of
Rock Springs.

back to health. And when she had been in that land of
war only a little while, there were no longer any neglected
soldiers to be found.

Of course her “boys” loved her; they realised with grati¬
tude all she had done for them. Every night before she
went to rest, she would take a lamp and go through those
long rows of beds to see whether every one was comfort¬
able and happy; and many a time the grateful sufferers
would turn and kiss her shadow as it was cast beside them
on the wall.

To be sure, this brave woman had much help in her
great work. There were too many wounded men for
one person to take care off; and, without the earnest help¬
ers she had gathered round her, and the generous sums of
money given by her countrymen, she could never have
accomplished the wonders she did. But she deserves the
chief credit, since it was her spirit and her example that
inspired others to be self-sacrificing.

. Florence Nightingale was a fitting name for so fine a
woman. Florence, you must know, is a beautiful city in
Italy, where the little girl was born, though her parents
were both English. As for the nightingale, that is the
sweetest singer of all the birds; and this brave woman’s
life was really a finer song than any ever sung by the most
musical of nightingales.

As Longfellow said of her and the light she brought
to the sufferers in the Crimean War:

“On England’s annals, through the long
Hereafter of her speech and song,

That light its rays shall cast
From portals of the past.

“A Lady with a Lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,

A noble type of good,

Heroic womanhood.”

House Room

There came to my mind this morning a phrase which T
often heard in my girlhood but which is rarely heard in
these later days. “Why do you keep that old thing,” some
member of the family would ask concerning a chair or some
treasured ornament. “I wouldn’t give it house room.”

I suppose the frugal minds of those days, when money
was “scarce” and comforts were few, treasured many an old
thing beyond its usefulness. But children of course had
little understanding of the cost of house room. They took
it for granted, like many of the other good things of life,
sharing not one bit the care-taking of their elders.

Perhaps we are just as careless and thoughtless concerning
a.still greater truth. Heart room is even more precious than
house room; and we can choose if we will the worthwhile
things to which we will give heart room.

This is because the things which abide in the heart should
be our real treasures, things which it is worthwhile to keep.
There is no. heart really big enough to envy or greed or sus¬
picion or censure. Do not give them heart room, Girl
Scouts, any one of these. If they steal in for a minute,
drive them out and be prompt and frank' in making clear to
them that you have no space for them.

One of the old; hymns which was likewise familiar in my
childhood ran:

“O come to my heart. Lord Jesus,

O come to my heart. Lord Jesus,

There is room in my heart for Thee.”

Perhaps it is because the memory of the old hymn and
the dear homes in which I heard it sung is precious to me,
that the thought of the heart was wonderfully comforting,
as I write. To have room in our hearts for all who need us
—and to give love beyond measure, this it is to be great¬
hearted. In the old Pilgrim’s Progress, (which you know
and love, I hope)—the one who led the way to the Prom¬
ised Land was named Great Heart. What a dear name to^

Make room in your hearts for all the lovely things of’
life, Girl Scouts. Make friends with the trees, and the
brooks, and the skies with their sun, moon and stars. Make
room for your neighbors, young and old, and especially
for the little ones who need you. Make heart room for
loving memories until they crowd out any lingering grudge
or sense of hurt. Find heart room for the good things, the
real things which you may keep,—may hold in your heart
and love forever and ever.

By DEAN SARAH LOUISE ARNOLD,
Retired President, Girl Scouts of America.

—Reprinted from. The Trail Ma\er.

Than Which

W. S. Gilbert once said of a certain man: “No one can
have a higher opinion of X than I have—and I think he’s
a dirty little beast.”—Pearson’s Magazine.

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Patty and Her Patchwork

By Abigail Williams Burton
OBODY is nice to me,” pouted Patty.

She went out on the porch and slammed the
screen-door behind her. The screen-door didn’t
like to slam. It liked to close quietly, the way Patty’s
mamma approved. So it sprang back and hit Patty
on the heel.

“Everything is cross!” pouted Patty.

She sat on the step and began digging the floor
with her fingernail. The floor didn’t like being
scratched. It was proud of its fresh coat of paint.
So it ran a sliver into Patty’s naughty finger.

“Everything hurts me!” wailed Patty.

She put her finger into her mouth and went down
the walk. By the pansy-bed she began kicking the
ground. Now the pansy-bed had all its pretty plants
tucked under their covers. It didn’t like to be kicked.
So it sent the dirt flying into Patty’s face.

“You’re horrid to me!” cried Patty.

She ran over to the apple tree and began shaking
it. The apple tree was old and dignified, much too
old and too dignified to be shaken by a little girl.
So it flung a green apple at Patty’s head.

“And you’re horrid, too!” cried Patty.

She picked up the apple and threw it at the pump.
The pump was standing quietly in its place. Of
course it didn’t like being hit in the spout! So it
bounced the apple back at Patty and hit her in the
nose.

My goodness, indeed! It was surprising where
all the hurt came from. Don’t tell me that it all grew
in one apple!

“Oh! Oh!” wept Patty.

She felt in her pocket for her handkerchief. And
she pricked her finger!

But how could any little girl prick her finger on a
pocket?"

I’ll tell you. Instead of finishing her sewing and
putting it away, as she should have done, Patty was
hiding her patchwork in her pocket! And the needle
saw to the pricking. That was the reason the needle
had an eye, if you ask Patty!

“Ouch!” said Patty. “Ouch!”

She stamped as she said it—right in the pan of
water that was waiting for the birds to come and
bathe. The pan didn’t like being stamped in—and
I’m sure I don’t blame it, do you? So it tipped up
on its edge—and upset Patty—and upset the water
on Patty—and upset itself upside down over Patty!

And then—would you- believe it?—why—

Patty began to laugh! She couldn’t help it.

It seemed so funny to be bathing in the water that
was meant for the birds! And though there was

plenty, for a big-bird-bath, there wasn’t nearly
enough for a little-girl-bath!

“Ho! Ho!” laughed Patty.

She straightened the pan on the ground arid sat
on it. You’d be surprised to find what a fine seat it
made.

“He! He!” giggled Patty.

She wiped her eyes with the patchwork—after she
had taken out the needle of course. And the patch¬
work was delighted to dry such pretty eyes. For it
was pretty, too—all pink and white, with the cun-
ningest tiny stitches, and more stitches waiting to be
made as cunning and as tiny—only you couldn’t see
them yet!

“Ha! Ha!” chuckled Patty.

She found the needle and took the splinter out
of her finger. The needle was delighted to help!
Even more than it enjoyed taking tiny stitches, did
it enjoy taking out splinters for Patty. That was
the real reason it had an eye, if you ask me!

“Oh, ho!” cried Patty.

She skipped to the pump for a drink. The pump
was delighted to be called upon by Patty. So it
jioured out for her its coldest and clearest Water.

Not to be outdone, the apple tree shook down a
ripe red apple at her feet. It was delighted to have
its best apple eaten by Patty!

From their bed the pansies waved to her to come
and gather them. Hadn’t they grown for her? And
weren’t they delighted to be picked up by her happy
fingers?

“Now,” cried Patty gaily, “I’m going to finish my
patchwork!”

And if you had watched, you would have seen
those other stitches that were waiting come flying
into place, all as cunning and as tiny as even Patty
could wish. The needle went ahead in fine style
and drew after it the dainty white thread. And
that, if you ask the needle, was the reason it had
an eye!

“Everybody is nice to me!” sang Patty.

A Memorial to “Uncle Remus”

For the good are always the merry
Save by an evil chance
And the merry love to fiddle
And the merry love to dance.

—The Fiddler of Dooney.

WANTED to tell you about a memorial fireplace

which is in the children's room of the Atlanta
Carnegie Library. I’ve been calling it an “Uncle
Remus” memorial but of course that isn’t quite right
because “Uncle Remus” isn’t dead. He’s going on
and on telling tales about Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox

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and Brer Bear. But the man who first told us about
Uncle Remus is dead, and since December ninth is
the anniversary of his birthday it is celebrated every
year as Joel Chandler Harris’ Day in the library of
his home city, with a program of his stories. And
all the children go. Sometimes as many as five hun¬
dred of them crowd into the room in which is this
wonderful fireplace. <

You see Joe Chandler Harris’ love for children
was proverbial. He 'Could never have written such
by'children-enjoyed stories if he hadn’t understood
them.

So when the Atlanta library was built, the librari'
an, who knew Mr. Harris very well asked that the
fireplace in the children’s room be made to depict
scenes from the “Uncle Remus” stories. This was
done and Brer Rabbit stands right on the top with
Robert L. Stevenson’s

“The world is so full of a number of things
I’m sure we all should be happy as kings.”

carved in huge letters as a motto; then all around
the fire box are blue and white tile scenes showing
“Uncle Remus” telling stories to “Little Boy.” And
Brer Rabbit fishing. And Brer Fox playing tricks.
And Brer Bear at the well. And the race up the hill.

Children’s rooms in libraries are very wonderful
places but I’m quite sure there are few others as
lovely as that in Atlanta.

fas About All of 11 b

Billie and Francis Tolzi, children of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Tolzi, Reliance.

ber 11th, between the Wildcats of Rock Springs and the
Reliance High School team was won by the Wildcats, the
score being 17 to 9. Members of the Rock Springs team
were: Taucher, forward; Angelovic, guard; Marushack,
guard; Parks, center; Larrabaster, sub forward; and Travis,

Superior

G. W. Hiles received a bad fracture of the leg in “E”
Mine which resulted in his removal to the Wyoming Gen¬
eral Hospital at Rock Springs.

Miss Bessie Nugent is recovering from a bad case of
small-pox, as is Ray Hiner.

Word was received here by relatives of the birth of a
baby son to Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Riedesel at Laramie on the
11th of November. Mrs. Riedesel was formerly Miss Emily
Dodds and lived in Superior.

Dr. Robt. Sanders and Alphonse Bertagnolli made a
business trip to Kemmerer during the month.

Frank Menghini received injuries in “C” Mine which
necessitated his removal to the hospital at Rock Springs.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wylam were called to Denver on
account of the illness of their daughter, Veva. She is re¬
covering and expects to accompany her mother home. Miss
Veva is a student nurse in Denver.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Genetti of South Superior have the
sympathy of their friends in the death of their thirteen
year old daughter, Lena. Funeral services were held at Rock
Springs on Thanksgiving Day.

Andrew Hood was slightly injured when he was struck
by a car in the fog, which was unusual for our part of the
country.

Mrs. G. A. Brown entertained the Altar Society at the
Community Club House. Bridge was the diversion of the
afternoon and high score was made by Mrs. A. Bertagnolli.
Refreshments were enjoyed at the afternoon’s close.

Mesdames R. Russell and Charles Dean entertained their
bridge club at the Community House. Mrs. Rud Robinson
and Harry Wylam won first prizes; Mrs. Wylam and Robert
Guy second; Mrs. A. Bertagnolli and Rud Robinson, the
consolation and Miss A. Stine the guest prize.

The Ladies’ Aid held their annual bazaar and dinner at
the Community Club House early in November. There
was a lovely display of needlework. The beautiful luncheon
set of cut work made and won by Mrs. A. Bertagnolli was
turned back to the society by her and became the property
of Mrs. Knudsen. Mrs. Joe Mettam won the pillow.

Arthur Ward was bn the sick list during the month.

Frank (Pat) O’Connell, who is a patient at the Govern¬
ment Hospital for World War veterans at Denver, is recov¬
ering but slowly. He has been there about fourteen weeks.
His many friends will be glad when he is able to be home

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marsh are the proud parents of a
baby girl born at Evanston late in November.

Reliance

Reliance friends are extending their sympathy to Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Sisk in the death of the aged mother of Mrs.
Sisk who passed away on December 10th.

Z. A. Portwood has been a patient at Wyoming General
Hospital.

Reliance has had rather more than an interesting share
of the prevalent flu. Just now the following are among
those confined to the house: Mr. and Mrs. Mack Green
and son; Frank Zelenka and children; Robert Uhren, Ger¬
trude Burns, Gust Panos, Wallace Dupape, Merlyn Robert¬
son, Mary Lou Koro-
gi, A. L. Zeiher, W.

S. Robertson and Wil¬
liam Sisk.

Doris Dupont en¬
tertained a bevy of
little friends for her
birthday on Decem¬
ber 12th.

Rachel Buckles has
sprained her knee and
is confined to her

Mrs. George Pryde
of Rock Springs visit¬
ed at the Kelley home Mary Lou Korogi is the daugh-
on December 11th. ter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Korogi,

I. R. Halseth visit- Reliance,
ed in Rock Springs
over the week-end of December 8th.

The basketball game played here Tuesday night, Decern-

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January, 1929

Mr. and Mrs. John Hunter are rejoicing over the arrival
of a son born at the Dee Hospital at Ogden.

Mrs. Ellen McLeod and Thos. and James Mullen attended
the funeral of Frank Taylor at Park City, Utah.

Mrs. C. A. Sheets and Mrs. M. A. Hansen were called
to Salt Lake City on account of the death of a relative.

Word was received by relatives from Carlsbad, California,
of the illness of Nie Mettam. A year ago it became neces¬
sary for Nie to give up his business here and move to Cali¬
fornia for his health, and his friends are sorry to know that
he is again quite ill.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hagenstein are home from Pinedale,
Mr. Hagenstein having been in the bank there for several
months.

Mrs. Chas. Morgan was called to Evanston to be with her
mother who is seriously ill.

Pete Nelson is off work with an injured hand.

Rock Springs

Mrs. Jennie Stewart has recovered from her recent illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Overy, Jr., are the proud parents of
a baby son, born Sunday, November 11th.

James Pryde is seriously ill, at his home at No. 3, with
an attack of pneumonia.

Mr. James Whalen has moved his family here from
Hanna. Mr. Whalen has accepted the position of night
foreman at No. 8 Mine.

Mrs. Elijah Daniels, who recently underwent a major
operation at the Wyoming General Hospital, is now rapidly
recovering and has
returned to her home
in the Barracks.

Robert Muir and
family have gone to
Southern California
where they expect to
spend the winter.

Thomas Rodda, of

the home of his broth¬
er, W. J. Rodda.

Urban Toucher,
who is a student at
the University of Wy¬
oming, spent the
Thanksgiving h o 1 i -
days here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Urban Toucher, Sr.

Mrs. F. L. McCar¬
ty and daughter, Car¬
rol, have returned
from a visit with rela¬
tives in Evanston.

Mrs. Dan Kelley, of
Bitter Creek, is seri¬
ously ill at the home
of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Rob¬
ertson, on No. 1 Hill.

J. L. Jones, An¬
thony Behring and Arthur Clegy have returned from Green
River, where they have been serving on the jury the past

Gus Kahus, who was injured in No. 8 Mine, in October,
has now recovered and returned to work.

Clara, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Crofts, is confined to her home with an attack of scarlet

Carl J. Carlson is confined to the Wyoming General Hos¬
pital, where he is recovering from an operation for appen-

Anthony Ramsey, John Retford, H. L. Mooney and Thos.
Overy, Sr., are all confined to their homes with the flu.

Mark Krichbaum is confined to the Wyoming General
Hosnital where he underwent a minor operation.

Hanna

The High School Boosters Club gave a novelty dance at
'Love’s Dance Hall on Saturday, November 24th.

Mr. and Mrs. James Whalen and family have moved to
Rock Springs where Mr. Whalen has accepted a position.

The marriage of Miss Jessie Benedict, niece of Mrs. O. C.
Buehler, and Foster Coleman took place in Denver on No¬
vember 18th. Best wishes are extended to the newlyweds.

St. Margaret’s Guild held their annual dance for the
benefit of the Cathedral Home for Children at Laramie,-on
Friday, November 30th.

The Pythian Sisters Lodge had general roll call at their
meeting on Monday, November 26th. About sixty mem¬
bers were present and after the business meeting'a delicious
lunch was served.

The Hanna KLZ, Just Kids Musical Club, broadcasted
over Radio Station KFBU at Laramie on Friday evening,
November 23rd.

Mrs. L. A. Rogers and children of Winton are visiting
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lucas.

The Senior Girl Scouts First Aid Team gave a surprise
waffle supper for their instructor, Thus. Lucas, at his home,
on Thursday, November 22nd.

The Episcopal and Methodist churches held union Thanks¬
giving services at the M. E. Church on Thanksgiving
morning.

The Eagle Lodge held their nineteenth annual dance on
Saturday, December 1st.

Harry Lyons, bookkeeper at the store, left for Winton on
Friday, November 30th, where he accepted the position of
store manager.

Funeral services for Matt Nelson of Difficulty were held
in St. Mark’s Episcopal church on Monday, December 3rd,
and interment made in the Hanna cemetery.

Mrs. Sam Crawshaw received word of the sudden death
of her mother Mrs. Draper at Edmonton, Canada.

Jim Bill Case, Bruce Bailey and “Frenchie” Ducoin left
on Sunday, December 2nd, for Salt Lake to join the United
States Navy.

The Tuesday Bridge Club was entertained by Mrs. Win¬
field Scott at her home at Medicine Bow on December
12th. Those who attended from Hanna were: Mesdames
F. E. Ford, Henry Jones, B. V. McDermott, J. R. Cummings,
Lynn Smith, O. C. Buehler, I. Sheratt, J. Pearson, H.
Challender. Prises were won by Mrs. McDermott, Mrs.
Pearson and Mrs. Scott.

The Ladies Aid of the M. E. Church held their annual
basaar in the First Aid Hall on December 15th.

The Junior Class of the High School gave the play “Am I
Intruding” in the theatre on Saturday, December 15th.

A social was given by the Hanna Band for members and
their families on Saturday, December 8th, in the First Aid
Hall. Supper was served at 7: 3Q o’clock after which the

following program was given:

Vocal Solo —“Sonny Boy" .John Lee Jr.

Piano accompaniment hv Mrs. John Lee, Sr.
Recitation —“Bedtime in Summer". . Donna Jean Jones

Piano Duet —“Flying Doves" .. Beth Lee and

Dorothy Brindley

Rock Springs Drug Co., Inc.

T. C. CHIDESTER, Prop.

“COURTESY AND SERVICE”

Near Your Home

222 Pilot Butte Ave. Phone 805

Rock Springs, Wyo.

Mrs. Tony Ritson, Rock
Springs, and little Miss Mary Rit-

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Recitation— “Golden Keys” .Ruth Milliken

Violin solo— “With Muted Strings. . . .Doris Sherratt
Piano solo— “Waltz" from Faust.... Evelyn Brindley

Violin solo— “Lay My Head Beneath a Rose” .

.Bert Tavelli

Vocal sol©'— “Sunshine in Rainbow Valley” .

.John Lee, Sr.

Piano accompaniment by Mrs. John Lee, Sr.

The program was followed b T ' a dance, music being fur¬
nished by two orchestras composed of: Bert Tavelli, violin;
I. Sherratt, cornet; Eric Lepponen, piano; Wm. Milliken,
drums; and Mrs. Winchell, piano; Mr. Winchell, violin;
Hugh Brindley, cornet; Robt. Miliken, drums and Mark
Johnson, saxaphone.

Winton

A welcome is extended to Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hansen
who have been transferred here from Reliance, Mr. Hansen
being our new material clerk.

Harry Lyons, formerly of Hanna, is our new store man¬
ager.

Mrs. Ben Butler entertained at cards on Wednesday after¬
noon, December 5th.

Mr. Geo. Ernsbarger, Assistant Master Mechanic, made
a business trip to Philadelphia recently.

Thyrell Toy and Irene Benson helped at the store during
the holidays.

Winton schools had to close for a short time during the
flu epidemic.

Winton extends its heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Bert
Robbins and Mrs. Leonard Fisher in the death of their
mother, Mrs. Charles Warren.

Mr. Munroe Ownby is recovering from an operation
performed at Wyoming General Hospital.

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and

prosperous
^AQew cyear
To All

FIRST SECURITY BANK

OF ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.

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THE AGE-OLD EXPRESSION —

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FOR YOUR LOYALTY, FRIENDLINESS AND
PATRONAGE WHICH WE HAVE ENJOYED
AND HOPE TO RETAIN. IN KEEPING WITH
THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON, WE SINCERELY
HOPE YOU HAD A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND WISH YOU A MOST HAPPY AND PROS¬
PEROUS NEW YEAR .....

Washington Union Goal Company Store

TONO, WASHINGTON

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Mrs. Kate Warriner of Rock Springs
visited with Mrs. Rae Dodds during De-

Dorothy Henderson entertained at a
beautifully appointed birthday party
on December 8th. Everybody had a
jolly time after congratulating the little
hostess.

Fred Graf spent Christmas with his
parents, Doctor and Mrs. Witte of
Omaha,

Mrs. Ben Card and Miss Viola Legge
" * the holidays .With their parents in

Mis

ssippi.

Gunther Zeppernick has gone to Germany, travelling
by way of California and the Panama Canal.

This community extends its heartfelt sympathy to Mrs.
Joe Lidell and Billy in their sad loss in the death of Joe
Liddell who, with his family, had been a resident of Winton

Every SEIBERLING resource backs this

ONE YEAR’S FREE

‘fotection

against

[

accidents, wheel mis¬
alignment, cuts, under¬
inflation. rim cuts, blow¬
outs. bruises, or any
road hazard.. _

The young folks who recently attended the birthday
party of Bennie and Boyd Butler of Winton.

Totio

The entire community of Tono gathered at the Club
House on the evening of November 24th for a farewell
party in compliment to Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Rankin, who
are leaving Tono soon. Five hundred was the diversion
for the evening, with 1 5 tables in play. Prises were given
to Mrs. Bert Holmes and Mr. Ed. Cook, first: Mrs. Jack
Grim and Fred Planeta, second; and Miss Etalin McBrat-
ney and Mr. Tom Warren, third. Refreshments we.re served
to 65 guests, after -which a beautiful chest of silver was
presented to the honor guests with the compliments of the
community of Tono. Mrs. Bert Holmes presented the gift
in a pleasing manner and Mr. and Mrs. Rankin responded
suitably.

Miss Gladys Mardicott, who is staying for the school
term at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reid Conrad at Cen-
tralia spent Thanksgiving week-end at home with her par¬
ents, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Mardicott.

Miss Ida Johnson of Tumwater and Miss Fay Johnson of
Tenino were home over the Thanksgiving holidays.

Among the parties for the month was one Saturday eve¬
ning, December 1st, when Mr. and Mrs. John Isaacson en¬
tertained for a group of friends at their home. Cards were
played with prices going to Mrs. James Sayce and Henry
Brierley, first; and Mrs. Brierley and Mr. Wesley French,
second. At midnight supper was served from a banquet
style table which was centered by a huge bowl of bronze'
chrysanthemums. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. James
Sayce, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Mardicott, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Brierley, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Boardman, Mr. and Mrs.
Wesley French, Henry Becker, Harry Waite and Miss Myrtle
Brierley.

SEIBERLING

ALL'TREAD

JOHN E. WHISENAND

ROCK SPRINGS

( This offer applies toN
passenger car tires only J

Miller’s Pharmacy

7^ew Location
LABOR TEMPLE

■•4"-»<>•■

A Happy and Prosperous
NEW YEAR

to All Our Friends and Patrons

Prescriptions Carefully Filled
Phone 7 ROCK SPRINGS

Monday, November 19th, will always be a red letter day
in the memory of Mr. C. V. Rankin for on this day he was
honor guest at a farewell banquet at the Hotel Olympian
at Olympia, which had been arranged for by the employes of

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33

the Tone store. At this time he was presented with a beau-
tiful pen and pencil set from the group present who were-
John Maki, Miss Sylvia Revel, Henry Becker, Patrick Cor-
coran, Horace Eggler and John Schuck. Mr. Rankin has
been manager of the Tono store for more than five years
and both he and his family leave a host of friends who
Join in wishing them • happiness and success in their new

One of the social events of the past month was a very
pretty party at the home of Mrs. Fred Planeta, when Mrs.
Planeta entertained at bridge. Her home was decorated
in fall flowers and ferns.,y,Honors for the evening went to
Mrs. Perry Richardson, Mrs. Bert Holmes and Mrs. John
Hudson.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Boardman entertained on Thanksgiv¬
ing evening for Mr. and Mrs. Todd Dove, and small Evonne;
and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dove and Master Robert.

Mr. and Mrs. William Hale and sons, Billy and Donald,
spent the Thanksgiving holiday with Mrs. Hale’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nelson at Seattle.

Eli Ring is still on the sick list and unable to work.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Barber have been haying remodeling
work done on their home. A new room has been added
adjoining the dining room.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cowell and small daughter, Alice
Beverly, were dinner guests on Sunday, December 2nd, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Mardicott.

Mr. and Mrs. William Hann, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tam-
blyn, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Davis, Mr. and Mrs. William
Barber, Mr. .and Mrs. Bert Boardman, have all had new
radios installed.

The Bible Class has started its regular classes again and
meets every Tuesday evening.' Everyone interested is cor¬
dially invited,

PROGRESSIVE
SHOE REPAIRING CO.

John and Joe Matkovitch, Proprietors

HIGH GRADE SHOE REPAIRING

At Our New Location
124 Pilot Butte Avenue
ROCK SPRINGS

ROSE S SHOP

BYRON DAY, Proprietor

A Happy and Prosperous New Year

to our friends and patrons. With thanks
for past patronage and soliciting your
orders far 1929.

Phone 123-W

First Security Bank Court ROCK SPRINGS

G Rock. Springs

Motor Co.

Buick Sales
and Service

Phone 34S Rock Springs, Wyo.

The v u ,

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"warinner

’s"

DRUGS

JEWELRY

Prescription Specialist

K and North Front Sts. ROCK SPRINGS

Phone 234

Acme Glass & Paint

Company

Phone 690 221 C Street

ROCK SPRINGS

Automobile Glass, Window
Glass, and Mirrors.

Paints, Varnishes, Lacquers,
Enamels, Brushes, Etc.

Pictures framed. “ SERVICE ” our motto

John Lucas Wholesaler

Phone 70 218 Pilot Butte Avenue

ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING

MCDONALD’S CANDIES,
BEST CIGARS,

ALL KINDS GINGER ALES

We cannot sell all the Candies but we
handle the best.

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January, 1929

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Grimm, Miss Elaine and Johnny spent
Thanksgiving with Mrs. Grimm’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.
Swanson at South Prairie.

Miss Wilma Glover, Miss Grace McCullough and Miss
Dorothy Arnell, Tono teachers, spent the Thanksgiving
holidays in Seattle.

Little Yvonne Dove suffered a severely bruised arm when
she accidentally caught it in a washing machine wringer.

Mrs. James Corcoran was a pleasing hostess Tuesday, De-
cember 11th, when she entertained at a bridge party. Hon¬
ors for the evening went to Mrs. John Isaacson, Mrs. Bert
Holmes and Mrs. Perry Richardson.

The regular monthly business meeting of the Community
Club was held, presided over by the president, Mrs. Dave
Davis. Refreshments were served by the following com¬
mittee: Mrs. William Barber, Mrs. Pat Barrett and Mrs.
Bert Boardman.

Mrs. Jack Grimm and Mrs. William Hann were joint
hostesses at the Club House for members of the First Aid
Club. Marigolds and ferns were used effectively for decora¬
tions and the evening was spent in playing games. After
the usual routine of business and first aid practice, refresh¬
ments were served at a long banquet table centered with a
huge brass bowl of marigolds.

Abe Howard has returned from the hospital but is not
able to return to his work for a few days.

Miss Helen Maki of Portland is visiting her aunt and
uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Johnson.

National book week was observed at the Tono Public
Library by a generous display from the J. K. Gills library
supply department. In the afternoon tea was served by
the librarians, Mrs. E. C. Way and Mrs. Bert Boardman.
Several new books for children as well as popular fiction
for the rental shelf were purchased.

Have you been a Blue Bird hostess or been entertained as
a Blue Bird guest? If you havn’t you have missed the time
of your life. Blue Bird entertainments are the vogue; the
past month’s calendar was filled to capacity.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Olsen of Seattle spent Thanksgiving
with Mr. and Mrs. John Isaacson.

The contract for the doctor and hospital was voted upon
last month and was again given to Dr. Paul Sweet of the
St. Lukes Hospital, Centralia.

Friends of George Hill were sorry to learn of his accident
by a fall of coal. Mr. Hill belongs to the Tono Band and
has many friends here.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boardman and little Miss Lorain
of Portland were overnight guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Boardman.

The Tono school gave a play November 22nd at the Tono
Hall. Proceeds will be used for a small phonograph for the

Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Messinger and family from Winton,
Wyoming, have moved to Tono.

Cumberland

Mrs. Archie Buchanan has been called to Coalville, Utah,
word having reached her that her mother, Mrs. Chappell,
had passed away Saturday, December 8th. Mrs. Chappell
was ninety-two years of ave.

The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James, Hunter has
been very ill but is slowly improving.

Miss Thelma Dexter is improving after her severe attack
of pneumonia.

A babv girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Hutchinson on the 27th of November.

Mrs. David Miller and family received the sad news that
her grandson, Crompton, had been killed while sleigh rid¬
ing in Evanston, Wyoming. The lad was just ten years of
age and had been coasting with a chum when they were un¬
avoidably struck by an automobile. Both boys died almost
instantly.

Mrs. Nick Sutler and Mrs. Lew Tucker have entertained
(Continued on page 36)

YOUR BEST SERVANT

IS

ELECTRICITY

USE IT FREELY

(F Adequate and dependable electric service is an Tj
important factor contributing to industrial 1

IL progress and better standards of living. J]

SOUTHERN WYOMING ELECTRIC COMPANY

Rock Springs, Wyoming

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35

And the finest bit of
parlor elocution I heard
during the Christmas
by the cynic who a

We live in deeds, n
not breaths;

In feelings, not in figures on a dial,

We should count time by heart throbs.

He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

—P. James Bailey.

A. W. D.: “What’s a bore anyway?”

Z. Y.: “Why a bore is the fellow who wants to tell about
his Christmas gifts when I want to tell about mine.”

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

—Frank Crane.

For sale or exchange: Seven ties in assorted colors.

—Most any man.

A colored preacher who was always getting his metaphors
mixed prayed once: “Oh, Lord! If there be one spark of
heavenly grace in our midst, we pray you to water it.”

’Tis the human touch in the world that counts
The touch of y'our hand and mine.

It’s worth far more to the fainting soul
Than shelter, or bread, or wine;

For shelter is gone when the night is o’er.

And bread lasts but for a day.

But the sound of the voice, and the touch of the hand
Live on in the soul alway.

—Spencer M. Free.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplo¬
mas but for scars.

Robert Burns’ birthday will soon be here and all the
Scots will find their way to Carl Carlson’s entertainment.

A Poetic Competition For New Year

A prize was offered for the most polite verses to an old
(Continued on next page)

<T QJe wish you

^appy and
prosperous

■HAQew ci/ear

c We want you to know how
heartily we appreciate the
confidence and good will ex¬
pressed by you in the year
just closing.

^ 7 b close our books without
saying “Thank You” for
the business entrusted to us
during the past year would
leave a debt unpaid.

< XOe wish you and yours a
very Happy New Y ear filled
to overflowing with Health,
Happiness and Prosperity.

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McCurtain Motor Co.

A. L. McCurtain

DODGE BROTHERS AGENCY

Phone 601 ROCK SPRINGS

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I Ana the Office Duster

(Continued from preceding page)
enemy wishing him an unhappy New Year. The prise win-

The Old Old Wish

I sit before the fire

And watch the embers glow.

And seem to see your face in them,—

And wish that it were so. ..

For I miss-you more and more—

Cypress and laurel and rue-—

I miss you much indeed, and wish
You might be missing too.

And so today believe

I think of you my friend.

And hope that with this New Year all
Your troubles have an end.

Deserves the prise, its purpose being as stated—doesn’t it?

News About All of Us

(Continued from page 34)

the Sewing Club during the month. Mrs. Edward Bakka
will be the next hostess.

The Relief Society of the L. D. S. Church held their
annual basaar and dance on December 1st.

Mrs. Ruth Ackerlund has been visiting at the home of
Mrs. James Reese at Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Wm. Cook, Sr. and family spent Thanksgiving with
their daughter, Mrs. Walter Goddard at Winton, Wyoming.

Any Cumbei-lander, or former Cumberlander, whose
vacation takes him near Tono, Washington, is sure to find
his way there and to the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Way,
once of Cumberland, Wyoming. Here’s “Deacon” Pitch-
ford of Rock Springs visiting.

Pedigreed

“And you say you guarantee these canaries?”

“Guarantee them? Why, madam, I raised them from
canary seed!”—Brown Jug.

Receptivity

About a week after having installed a radio set a man
happened one night to be in the bedroom while his little
son, aged about 5, was saying his prayers and this is what
the father heard:

“And please God make me a good boy—It’s Harold
Jones announcing, and I’ll be on the air again tomorrow
night at 7:30.”—Frivols and Flutters.

C Seasonal — j

Greetings

H.J. Heinz
Company

GROWERS, MAKERS
DISTRIBUTORS OF THE

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VARIETIES

PURE FOOD

PRODUCTS

H. J. HEINZ COMPANY

PITTSBURGH, U. S. A.

January, 1929

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37

★HILLS BROS

Coffee is more than
something hot to drink

★ Hills Bros' process of
Contr oiled Roasting gives
their coffee an exclusive
flavor.

Look for the Arab! It’s the sign of the genuine Hills Bros.
Coffee. That famous coffee, uniformly delicious because every
berry is roasted evenly by Hills Bros.’ exclusive continuous
process. No ordinary method of roasting could produce such a
marvelous, full-bodied flavor.

Hills Bros. Coffee is packed in vacuum. All the rich flavor
and exhilarating aroma comes to you intact. Ask for Hills Bros.
Coffee by name and look for the Arab on the can.

Fresh from the original
vacuum pack. Easily
opened with the k e S-

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January, 1929

Hurst Dairy Company

Wholesale and Retail

CREAM AND DAIRY
PRODUCTS

ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING
Phone 747-W

LIFE INSURANCE....

The one thing that has not advanced in price.

The dollars you invest in Life Insurance purchase
more protection than ever before.

While prices of commodities have been advancing
since the war, the steady lowering of the death rate
and the reduction in expense percentages have en¬
abled us to furnish insurance at less cost than in for-

CLARK M. COMIN, Agent
THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY
OF AMERICA

Room 16, Rock Springs National Bank

E. L.JUELL

WELDING SERVICE

318 C Street Phone 696-J

ROCK SPRINGS

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DELCO CYLINDER REBORING

REMY GENERAL MACHINE

IGNITION WORK

cRock Springs^ lor al Shop

Mrs. J. S. Salmon, Proprietor
HEW LOCATION
31? North Front Street

Rock Springs

CUT FLOWERS AND PLANTS

Leading Florist of the District
GIVE US A CALL
Phone 61

Phishing You

G J£appy and prosperous
^AQew cijear

■«?

The Rock Springs National Bank

ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING

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39

Back Yard

Economics

There’s a lot of good sense passed
out in the back lot.

That’s where you get real dope
about politics and the ball team
—and tires.

When your neighbor says “buy
USCO Balloons,” he knows.

USCO Balloons are all sold
with the full warranty of the
United States Rubber Company.

They are good tires—and good
bargains.

Look over the prices—then
come in and judge for yourself.

United States Tires are Good Tires

UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

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January, ig2g

Supreme Brands
Cookies, Crackers and Cakes

'J'HERE’S genuine pride in having
the best—that’s why the West
is so strong for Supreme Brand oven
products. Folks who enjoy good
things to eat choose this delightful
line after trying them all.

And here’s the reason—made of the
most select Western products, baked

by Westerners who know how, in a
plant flooded with Western sun-
shine, “Supreme” brand quality sat¬
isfies Westerners as nothing else

If you’ve never acquired the "Su¬
preme” buying habit, try it now,
for “Supreme” is a word to go
BUY.

Real pleasure awaits you.

THE MERCHANTS BISCUIT CO.

DENVER

“If we suggest today — you’ll insist tomorrow”

TELEPHONE 169

Lewis H. Brown

ATTORNEY-AT'LAW

First National Rock Springs,

Bank Building Wyoming

E. L. WETZEL

CLEANING AND PRESSING OF
FINE CLOTHES SOLICITED

From Office Assistants, Teachers
and Others

TELEPHONE 1 58W

All Kinds of

o)hoes and c }tosiery

HO TO GRAPH Y

FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY

-At-

Expertly done

MACK’S Shoe Store

326 So. Front Street

NeW Studio Phone 167-W

Rock Springs, Wyoming

Phone 88-W

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KELLOGG ,
LUMBER j
COMPANY 1

if Building Materials and Paints

General Contractors

ll ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING

Utah

Wyoming

STORES IN
California

Idaho

Nevada

Schramm-Johnson Drugs

DRUGS, KODAKS, STATIONERY
AND SUNDRIES

ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.

0 /our Luncheon is Complete When
You are Serving

PIES - CAKES - ROLLS
BREAD - PASTRIES

FROM

SCOTT’S BAKERY

215 C Street

ROCK SPRINGS

Joseph

Paint, Oil, Glass and
Builders’ Hardware

W

Stoves, Ranges and Kitchen Utensils
Including Roasters

128 K Street

Telephone 111

TOM THUM

We take orders for

Engraved Calling Cards
Announcements, Greetings, Etc ,

Home Made Candy
Ice Cream

Magazines and Stationery

ROCK SPRINGS

Phone 36 Second and C Streets

The Super Service Station

Extends New Years Greetings to All

Cars Washed, Polished
and Greased

GAS and OIL

Al Lee, Manager ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.

Henry Chipp

agent for

New Edison Phonographs and Records
Brunswick Phonographs and Records
Columbia Phonographs and Records
Pianos, Player Rolls, Sheet Music

R. C. A. Radios and Supplies

rock Springs, Wyoming

MINCE and <j> UNION BAKERY

PUMPKIN Supplies for holidays and other events.

Pilot Butte Avenue ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.

FRUIT
CAKES
of all kinds.

1

Employes 5 Magazine

January, 1929

C O R D O V E

CIGAR COMPANY

DISTRIBUTORS

10c to $1.00 Each

OSMUNDO

A Cigar You’ll Like

C R E M O

America’s Best Cigar for 5 cents

NORTH SIDE
STATE BANK

— of—

ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.

Capital .$ 75,000.00

Surplus . 75,000.00

Undivided Profits. 12,653,47

Deposits . 2,002,061.48

Total...$2,164,714.95

“The People's Bank”

The friendly bank on the busy corner

T. Seddon Taliaferro, Jr*

ATTORNEY

If

Rock Springs, Wyo.

The Place to Get

Good Things to Eat

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HOWARD’S

Corner S. Front and C Street

ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.

WESTERN
AUTO TRANSIT
COMPANY

HUDSON — ESSEX

Packard — Reo Speed Wagon

PRESTO-LITE BATTERIES
DUNLOP TIRES

SALES & SERVICE

' Phone 109 ]

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ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING

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January, 1929

Employes’ Magazine

43

JOHN BUNNING

LONG DISTANCE MOVING
HEAVY HAULING

BAGGAGE TRANSFER—STORAGE
CRYSTAL ICE

Rialto Building ROCK SPRINGS

Phone: Day, 375; Night, 140

ROCK SPRINGS
STEAM LAUNDRY

SMITH BROS., Props.

ROCK SPRINGS, WYO.

THE WOMAN’S FRIEHD

Soft Water Only Used Here
Phone 18 J Street

Cudahy’s

PURITAN

ms

Lard

MR. J. S. WEPPNER

Representative

Rock Springs, Wyoming
“The Taste 7

The Cudahy Packing Co.

of Nebraska

NORTH SALT LAKE, UTAH

m

LEXINGTON
CREAM FLOUR

Milled jrom Eastern Hard Wheat
Is an Excellent BREAD FLOUR

<7 he SUNLIGHT BAKERY

MAKES THOSE WONDERFUL

PAN ROLLS

FROM THIS HIGH GRADE FLOUR

OCCIDENT FLOUR

From a Blend of Occident and Lexington

<7 he SUNLIGHT BAKERY

Both of These Flours are for Sale at All Stores of

THE UNION PACIFIC COAL CO.